In the Department of Asian American Studies a faculty member has created an on-line Asian American Oral History Project. Each of her students conducted interviews with an Asian immigrant, and then contributed an oral history to the website. Each oral history comes complete with a brief digitized video of the interview subject, an audio excerpt from the interview, a map showing the subject's migration route, and a timeline that places the subject's life in the context of Asian history. In the Physics Department the students in Introductory Physics benefit from the Interactive Physics Problem Set, containing nearly one hundred practice problems. Each one is presented as a story problem for the student to solve, with the help of a moving picture or diagram that illustrates the problem.
Topics covered include velocity, projectiles, forces, circular motion, and the like.
The ability to manipulate the illustration, so that the projectile moves slowly enough to track the coordinates, or so that the wind factor is increased or decreased, for instance, enhances the learning experience for the student. In the Molecular Immunology Laboratory course, students at the various laboratory stations upload the results of their experiments onto the web, so that all of the students can benefit from all of the data collected. The Nuclear Design course in Nuclear Engineering requires a final presentation, which is uploaded onto the course website, and communication among the students is also facilitated through the site. Thanks to a McEnerny grant provided by the Dean of Humanities, UGIS was able to hire a graduate student to comb the world wide web and produce a comprehensive website with maps, slides, timelines, and background readings on all of the cultures studied in the course. This site will be used each fall when World Civilization is taught, so it is destined to have lasting value.