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This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on January 1, 1999. The length of the article is 2067 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Criteria used to design an introductory Internet-based college course in astronomy with an observation laboratory are discussed. Many students learn better when they can interact with a professor in person, and the course design allows engagement in the learning process to more closely simulate real-time interaction. A low-cost video-server program can send a live video stream to the student's browser that allows eye contact as well as text chat, and the software sends frame-by-frame updates for a 'Show and Tell' mode. Giving students a sense of the lecturer's personality is more difficult, but the teacher wrote his own electronic text book that gives students a core set of basic scientific ideas as well. The 'lab' component of the course lets the professor help students through difficult visual tasks in Show and Tell and has a CCD imager for collecting telescope data. The course requires a fast, reliable Internet connection.

Citation Details
Title: An Internet-Based Introductory College Astronomy Course with Real-Time Telescopic Observing.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
Author: David G. Iadevaia
Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 1999
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: 26Issue: 6Page: 71(1)

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