The examples described below resulted from nominations for the University's annual Honorary Graduates' Award for Innovative Teaching , Note that information on computer based learning may be obtained from the home page under the Computer Assisted Learning' section of the website. Details of the Award are available from the Staff Development Office. This allows student groups to buy and sell over 2000 quoted AIM stock and to investigate the on-line historic data provided by Finesse. Dundee is the lead educational site with joint administrative responsibility for the project. Over 200 students have used it in honours courses in the past two years.
Histology is fundamental to an understanding of pathology and elements of cell biology.
One of several advantages of the new course is that it introduces the students quickly to high-quality images of the 'core' features of an organ or tissue without recourse to a frustrating hunt under the microscope. It is thus unsurprising that a range of innovative methods are used in delivering the course, including various kinds of peer assessment. Assessment which merely assigns marks to an intellectual product such as a written report has very limited formative value for the learner. Banded grading is even less discriminatory. Summary The site was first developed, over the summer of 1997, to use the Internet to both deliver course materials and to encourage self-learning.