Then she composes a question to her professor about the current reading assignment on Immanuel Kant. Several hours later, she goes back to the computer and finds her professor's reply. Questions from other students, along with responses, also appear. Learnlink , used as a teaching aid in a variety of academic disciplines at Emory, is one example of how the University's information technology network has rapidly matured into a sophisticated campus resource. Other projects featured in the exhibit incorporate text, photography, art, video, and sound to meet teaching and research needs.
Some instructors create on-line resources tailored to the specific interests of their classes.
Bellesiles is now in the process of digitizing more than four hundred documents in American history. In a similar effort, Associate Professor of English Harry Rusche has created a host of on-line, electronic texts and graphics customized for his courses. His Shakespeare Illustrated is a colorful directory of paintings of images from the Bard's plays. Professor Kyle Petersen of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the School of Medicine produced an on-line laboratory manual for cell biology and histology by converting more than six hundred color transparencies to electronic form and adding text and sound files. Researchers on and off campus will be coming to Emory's Woodruff Library to use electronically stored archival collections.