Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!phyllis From: phyllis@utcsrgv.UUCP (Phyllis Eve Bregman) Newsgroups: ont.events Subject: Marc Brown: "The electronic classroom: The future of undergraduate computer science education". Message-ID: <3424@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Fri, 2-Mar-84 16:34:52 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3424 Posted: Fri Mar 2 16:34:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 17:22:55 EST Organization: CSRG, University of Toronto Lines: 32 UofT Department of Computer Science Seminar Schedule for the week of March 5th, 1984 Tuesday, March 6th, 4:00 P.M., GB244: Professor Marc Brown, Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: "The electronic classroom: The future of undergraduate computer science education". ABSTRACT: At Brown University we have recently opened an "Electronic Classroom", that is, a specially built lecture hall containing 60 high-performance graphics-based workstations connected by a high-bandwidth resource-sharing local area network. Courses use this hardware, coupled with an innovative course/software environment, as the principal medium of communication. Rather than explain a concept using a blackboard or viewgraph, instructors are able to use dynamic graphic presentations. Moreover, students are able to interact with these "real-time" movies themselves. Our recent experiences in teaching the introductory programming course and the algorithms and data structures course will be discussed, and sample material will be illustrated in a videotape. In addition, the conceptual framework behind the courseware/software environment, as well as its implementation, will be described. [For background reading, a copy of the Brown University technical report CS-83-28 has been put in the Computer Science Library.] -- Phyllis Eve Bregman CSRG, Univ. of Toronto {decvax,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,allegra,utzoo}!utcsrgv!phyllis CSNET: phyllis@toronto (416) 978 6985