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This entire web site is the personal creative and intellectual property of Ross Koning. All pages have been developed on my own time, on my family Macintosh with my own software and support hardware. These web pages reside on personal equipment and are served by software residing on personal equipment.
I am also providing interesting (but copyrighted) current articles about botany in an electronic Reading Room, but you need to have a password to gain access. This is to protect the property of the copyright holders and yet to provide reading material for my students under the fair-use provisions of copyright law. I am sorry that I cannot provide access to anyone other than students in my courses.
I have a Cell Diagram under construction for your examination. This is a clickable map and so you will soon be able to click on any organelle and get to some explanation. For now, the larger organelles have been defined. The less obvious cell structures will be implemented as I get time.
Hi Alice,
So long as I keep my copyright to these materials and you are distributing them free-of-charge, I have no problem with you doing so. If ever a person is charged for my material, then permission is withdrawn. I am producing these pages for free and want to be sure they stay that way. THANKS for asking!
ross
Dear Ross,
I have one more request: In preparation of the pkal workshop, I would very much like to learn something about the experience you as a web-author or as the author of university courses presented on the www made. Do, for example, your students like and accept your web-materials?
Yes, the students have strong positive feelings about the website and its offerings. These are evident in the regular course evaluations.
Do they maybe even like the web-courses more than the traditional in-person instruction?
My website is supplementary to in-person instruction, so this question cannot be answered directly by my experience. I do not believe authentic learning is fully achieved without hands-on minds-on experience in lab and/or field. So, while students may like or need a hands-off distance learning opportunity, I don't think they get a major fraction of what is offered in an in-person experience with lab/field.
Do you have reason to believe that your web-materials enhances their learning and/or motivation?
Yes, course evaluations say so. However, I believe there are other factors that influence learning far more drastically. My course is taught in three time-frames...the lectures, labs, and exams have been the same in all three. Yet the students in the shortest time-frame do considerably better in all respects. I have a feeling that the various factors involved in a short semester positively impact student learning more than the fact that materials are available on-line.
Do you have any experience with virtual discussions of course topics?
So far this has not worked out too well here. It could be my fault. I did set up a list-serve and subscribed all of the students to it. Virtually all messages were one-way (from me to them). The only positive feedback I got from that was that they liked getting a personal report on their grade in the email (I used some freeware program to compose an email merge from my grading database). They got such a report on the day after each exam...including the final.
Any information about your experience and about potential feedback of students would be very welcome. Just write me a short e-mail (alice.bergfeld@berlin.de). Thank you very much!
Best regards,
Alice Bergfeld
Best wishes!
ross