One requisite of whatever is included on the student Web page is ease of use. Also it is important to have a guide to what students should do in case they r un into difficulties. A great deal of time was spent designing explanations of how students should use the audiotaped lectures and what to do if they ran into certain difficulties. The audiotaped lectures have onl y been on the page one semester, yet they have proved to be quite beneficial. Student feedback has been quite positive.
Students say that they utilize the lectures in various ways.
Some say they listen to them over and over again until they master the con cepts. Others say they just skip straight to any trouble area they might be having, listen to the relevant material, then move on to something else. Some say they just play them as background while they're doing other things and pick up bits and pieces of the materials as they do so. The lectures have also served as giving students in advanced classes a quick review over materials they may need to bring them up to speed for the new course. Also, the lectures have been a selling point for students who may be unsure whether they want to take a course over these topics or not.