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Survey You might be interested in seeing how students have responded to this kind of course. We have put on our site the summary of student responses to a questionnaire in Spring 1995, Spring 1996, and Spring 1997. We also have written a few articles on our experience with instruction on the Internet. These papers are listed below, and some are accessible over the net.
Other Web Materials You also might like to take a look at another web-based meteorology course activity available at Iowa State University. Dr. Douglas Yarger has developed a weather forecasting exercise that is available to anyone on the internet. To view this site and assess your skill, or have your students test theirs, at weather forecasting, check out the following URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~mt206/forecast/forecasting.html.
We call your attention to an internet tool developed at Iowa State University for management of assignments for large classes. This tool, developed by Peter Boysen, is freely available URL: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pboysen/classnet.html. You are welcome to contact Pete and use this for your class.
Collaborations We are seeking innovative collaborations with faculty from other universities for sharing course information or whole courses. For instance, if your university does not have a course like ours but your department would like to offer some such material, we are open to the possibility that we could collaborate to make ours available to your students. Your students could participate in the electronic dialog with ours and submit assignments like ours. Under this scenario, we would ask you to administer the midterm and final examination and return them to us. If there is sufficient interest (and potential student volume) we will explore the financial arrangements with our administration.
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