WWW Used to Enhance Psychology Instruction and University Image Over the past few months, I have been pleased to make the acquaintance of Dr. Charles Long of our Psychology department. Actively working to integrate technology into the courses which he teaches, Dr. Long is using the Web to deliver materials for undergraduate courses in neuropsychology and psychology as well as information pertinent to the fields for all Web visitors. Students can go to the page for this course and find course requirements, session schedules, and lecture outlines for each session's topic. Students can prepare questions in advance of the session.
Students have a solid foundation on which they can build more elaborate notes.
Since they have the outline in hand, they can devote more of their note-taking to details. While at the Web site, students may also take quizzes, typically multiple choice, on each section. The quizzes give the students an idea of the key concepts they should be mastering. Although Dr. Long's Web material does include some charts and illustrations, it consists primarily of textual information delivered in concise modules. Dr. Long is aware that students viewing the Web material from off-campus may have monitors which can offer only poor resolution and that they are coming in through modems.