Virtual classrooms

Like training, approaches for individual, management, and leadership development are likely to be offered increasingly on the Internet via virtual classrooms. Since many organizations continue to spend a large amount on development activities, there is little reason to suppose that they wiU discontinue such expenditures. 

Palloff RM, Pratt K. Building online learning communities effective strategies for the virtual classroom. San Francisco Jossey-Bass 2007. 

Organized in virtual classrooms, the distant students can interact through internet among themselves and with their professors, class tutors and subject tutors, both openly and privately. This on line interaction has also synchronous activities, for cooperative work done by the students and the tutors. 

The complete remote tutor package consists of two parts a database server with ASP based implementation for providing administrative services and another server, Lecture Manager Server (LMS), having multimedia capabilities for implementing the virtual classroom over the Internet. The application requires... 

FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY is arguably an important course, one that needs to be viewed as a contribution beyond a service level. It affords the opportunity to make the case, to many students of varied disciplines, of why chemistry is the central science and is responsible for virtually all of the high-tech developments they encounter or read about. The course should be a vehicle to attract more students to chemistry. More importantly, it should instill greater respect for and appreciation of chemistry by students who will not necessarily specialize in it. In our view, this function is particularly important for engineering students, as they will frequently use the basic ideas in freshman chemistry in their professional lives, yet they often wonder where the connection is while they are exposed to these ideas in the classroom. 

The list appeals to teachers, containing virtually every behavior that annoys them or demands their attention. Its marketing success is based on this redefinition of relatively normal classroom behaviors, especially among bored or poorly managed children, into a disorder treatable by drugs. The same list of behaviors in children could be used to identify, not a disease in the children, but incompetent or overstressed teachers, boring classes, and poor classroom discipline. 

With little to guide them but hard-won laboratory experience, chemists had identified 60 or more elements by 1869. But they had no useful way of organizing them, no system for determining the elements relationships to one another. Was there any order to the elements The question stumped the worlds best chemists until the Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleyev solved the problem. His eureka moment did not come in his lab but in his bed. I saw in a dream, he wrote, a table where all the elements fell into place as required. The arrangement became the first periodic table, and its descendants adorn virtually every chemistry classroom and textbook on the planet. 

E Eliminate Think of what might happen If you eliminated various parts of the product/process/problem. and consider what you might do in that situation. This often leads you to consider different ways of tackling the problem. Typical questions What would happen If 1 removed a component or part of it How else would 1 achieve the solution without the normal way of doing it Example Mo classroom, Training without classroom. No trainer, Virtual trainer. Eliminate time constraint, Anytime training. Video of one-training/one-trainer reuse - replicate the same. 

Traditional versus nontraditional exercises. Although the instructional presentation is traditional, the assessment of it is not. Virtually all existing classroom and textbook instruction about arithmetic story problems requires only that students come up with a numerical response. SPS very rarely requests the student to do so. Instead, SPS has the student identify the type of situation(s) present in a problem, demonstrate an understanding of how the various pieces of the problem fit the situation, recognize which of several situations is the primary one in a multisituation problem, and show the order of steps one would take to solve a complex problem. 

SIA SFU will also provide ongoing support for students and teachers through the SIA SFU web site (www.siasfu.ca), which will grow to contain links to interesting and age-appropriate web sites for chemistry, biology and physics, including virtual experiments. The web site will contain helpful information for science teachers and experiments that can be conducted at home or the classroom with commonly available materials. 

Now we have two parameters, S y and Ug y, that will tell us which way processes will go, but they refer to processes which virtually never occur, except perhaps in classroom exercises - that is, processes which occur at constant values of U and V, or of S and V, our two constraints. We need a parameter which will refer to processes at constant T and P, our most common case. ... 

These features help the learner to improve the pronunciation and the communication skills. Drawing and handwriting fxmctionalities make the virtual tool closer to the real teaching process, they allow the tutor to present the educational content like he/ she does in the classroom. A project section is developjed in order to allow the students to work as a team during the project development pjeiiod of time. The project supervisor monitors and controls the project development, views the students activities and provides each student with an objective feedback based on the student s performed tasks. 

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