Through e-mail, as opposed to traditional memoranda, the course is able to move at a much quicker pace and receives praise from students for its practical experience. Provide ready, rapid, and interest-generating access to massive amounts of information in ways that encourage students to search, explore and combine information. The tutorial includes over 9,500 pictures and full text descriptions of leaves, twigs, fruit, flowers, bark, form, and range maps for 470 species of woody plants. Following study of the tutorial, the student can take a quiz that can be customized to test material that has been covered. The Perseus Project, housed at Tufts University, allows users to view Greek and Roman texts, primary and secondary sources, and historical information.
Texts are available in Greek, Latin, and English translations with an online dictionary.
Users can also find sites mentioned in the text on a map of the Mediterranean and view photographic images and museum collections. Allow faculty to see, understand, and even exploit the different learning styles each student brings to the classroom. We have always known that students learn differently, but we continue to teach primarily in a mode that assumes one learning style. Professors can access a student's profile, compare it to the rest of the class, and adjust future lectures or provide individual counseling accordingly. In a conventional class, even when discussion is encouraged, students assume an attempt to clear up their own confusion will delay the whole class.