The CD ROM was developed by the Urban Forestry Diagnostic Lab in Amherst Massachusetts with support from UMass Extension, the five college Multimedia Access Project, and the Massachusetts Arborist Association. The CD contains 500-600 audio segments, photographs, and analytic text and enables users to navigate the history of contemporary US popular music independently. This presentation displays components from an interactive instructional CD-ROM about designing and testing survey questions.
Illustrations involve staff and clients of an employment services program for homeless persons.
This session analyzes the development and operation of a course web site now in its fourth semester of use. Participants will see how the site has evolved over time, lessons learned to improve the site's navigability, and the results of a formal student survey and analysis of three-year grade trends. The Center for Computer-based Instructional Technology at the Amherst campus collaborates with faculty to create instructional software and to develop tools that streamline this process. Since no special computing knowledge or skills are required, the course builder allows the instructor to focus on content and pedagogy. This proposed paper presentation describes our work to date on developing a handbook that provides information for those teaching and learning via interactive video.