Using FirstClass, said Anderson, helped student groups focus on their main project goals and made it easy for team members to share files. Using technology to enhance teaching and learning in this way represents a major shift. We want to encourage our students to use writing as an instrument of thought across the curriculum-not just in the context of their engineering courses. Dimitri Dimitroyannis of IT Academic Technologies helped set up the FirstClass conferencing site. The whole course is more flexible, adaptable and changeable.
Students learn more from doing real projects for real clients.
Two separate but related presentations on automated courseware illustrated the wide range of the technology spectrum for the TiLT audience. Both have been integrated into courses at Northwestern. In short, students learn by doing. Saunders contrasted the ILS goal-based scenarios with more conventional educational software. By asking art experts questions about stylistic elements, researching historical records, and examining scientific tests performed on paintings, students gather evidence which they later use to argue for an attribution.