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Remarks and Recommendations: Optional Web Resource, Required Web Activity
Hi Alice,I just completed a very thorough survey of student responses to many aspects of my course and web materials, both statistical data and short answers. These should be of interest to you -- take a look at: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~terry/229sp00/survey1.html - on disc. The results are very positive regarding most features of the course and uses of the Web.
Regarding mirroring web-based materials, the only major hassle is using the most current materials. I revise substantially every time I teach the course, and am careful to check all links and update or replace those that have become broken.
Regarding a CD-ROM version, this is more problematical. I once created a CD where, by choosing to make the CD readable by older Windows (8 letter file names only), all links were changed and as a result the entire hyperlink structure was useless. I hope your efforts at creating a CD-ROM preserve link structure are better than mine! My solution to potential copyright problems with images is to leave most images at their original web locations and link to them. It should still be possible for a CD-ROM version to preserve these links so that a user would be able to link them.
Incidentally, my course is not a true "distance education" course; my students still see me in class, and take exams in my presence. The laboratory portion of the course does not make use of web resources -- indeed, we don't even have a computer in the laboratory. But Web-resources are clearly a potentially valuable addition in many respects.
You might want to link to my most current completed microbiology course, rather than last year's version. All my course materials can be accessed from: http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~terry/Common/educator_resources.html
Hope this answers all your questions.
Best,
Tom Terry
Alice Bergfeld - Peter v. Sengbusch