In what formats are the workshops web-based cmi materials being developed?
The Workshop’s Web-based computer-mediated instructional (CMI) materials are being developed in the form of individual discipline-based (or subject-area) topic modules. Each topic module will consist of a collection of interrelated lessons, homework assignments and dynamically generated instructional text. Thus, a topic module on statistical displays, intended for use in pre-calculus, economics, or political science courses might include lessons on “Graphical depictions and measures of central tendency,” “Graphical depictions and measures of variance and standard deviation,” “Interactive box plots” and “Interactive histograms.” Similarly, a topic module on “Techniques for doing research on the Internet,” intended for use in a course in Computers and Information Systems (for undergraduate students who are not majoring in engineering, mathematics or the physical sciences), might include lessons in “Database structures”, “Algorithms” and “Binary search techniques.” In some cases topical m
