There is no doubt in Glider's mind that his is a traditional course with learning goals similar to those of his many colleagues involved in teaching this multisection college biology course. Home page of William Glider's biology class. Access to this page is controlled via ID and password . An example of a tutorial is show in Figure 11.08. Sample tutorial from bioscience course.
Students have four possible responses, and receive feedback.
As we have noted before, and will note again in later chapters, prior knowledge is the largest single factor that accounts for variance in new learning. Any strategy which can increase current learning is likely to give good results. The optional, open access, repeatable testing used by Calvin Garbin in his statistics courses exemplifies the easy use of this approach on the Web. From virtually any location at any time, Garbin's students can access course materials, and also attempt quiz items and receive feedback. Their performance in his course becomes dependent upon the amount of effort they are willing to put forth.