The piece of paper was placed under my door. Some traditions will take time to change. An informal survey of students highlighted the fact that students read the web materials but did not interact with them. Few used the human resources management system, multimedia and Javascript examples provided on one of the web pages. Hyperlinks became things to bypass unless the students understood them as necessary to completing a workshop activity or answering a tutorial question.
Students take short cuts.
One of my students, who felt aggrieved by her overall grade for the subject, suggested that she was 'short-changed' by not having lectures. Another student viewed web delivery as experimental and therefore something that should not be imposed on students during their final year studies. Although there were some negative response, I feel most students gained from the experience and liked the delivery of the subject via the web. However, with this new so-called flexible delivery of a course there is a greater need to develop tactics to further support those formal and informal conversations that constitute meaningful university life. Tony joined the Melbourne College of Advanced Education as a lecturer in educational computing in 1984.