Teaching and Learning Collaboration between the ATN Universities: A Case Study
This paper describes an undergraduate teaching collaboration between two academics at two different ATN universities. This collaboration has been assisted by increasing attitudes of collaboration within the ATN network and by improving multi-media technology. While the collaboration has not been in place long, early feedback indicates that it is providing significant benefits.
Continuing engineering education by electronic blackboard and videotape: a comparison of on-campus and off-campus student performance
The authors discuss student performance in the two different systems that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign employs for its remote delivery of off-campus courses in continuing engineering education. The two systems are the AT&T Gemini 100 Electronic Blackboard system and videotaping courses in a studio classroom setting. Three sets of findings are reported about comparisons of on and off-campus student performance in the same engineering courses offered from 1979 through 1986, and these findings are then related to pertinent literature. The first compares on and off-campus students in electronic blackboard courses over the seven-year period, the second compares on and off-campus students in videotape courses, and the third set of findings compares and contrasts results on student performance resulting from the two types of off-campus delivery systems. >
Perceptual style and ball skill acquisition.
Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between perceptual style (field dependence-independence) as measured by the portable rod and frame test and the learning of a ball catching task for three viewing time treatments. Two groups of subjects (N = 45) who satisfied the criteria for field dependence-independence were subdivided and randomly assigned to one of the three viewing time treatments. There were 15 subjects from each of the perceptual style classifications in each of the 150, 250, and 350 millisecond viewing time treatments. The hypothesis of a relationship between perceptual style and learning on the ball catching task was upheld for two of the viewing time treatments (150 and 250 milliseconds). The field independent subjects demonstrated a significantly greater rate and amount of learning than the field dependent subjects for these viewing time treatments. Both field dependent and field independent subjects demonstrated statistically significant improvements in learn...