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Recommended Citation: Melchert, M.  CourseWeb: A Report On Using WebCT for Course Notes.  In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2000, v 17 (Philadelphia): §206.
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CourseWeb: A Report On Using WebCT for Course Notes

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 		Matt Melchert    [a1] [a2]
The Waikato Polytechnic    [u1] [u2]
New Zealand    [c1] [c2]

The author has been supplying course notes to students on the computer network for many years. These were usually developed using a word processor, but in 1999 the course notes were converted to web pages so they could be viewed by a web browser. This system, referred to as CourseWeb, allowed the use of hyperlinks to definitions and other resources available on the World Wide Web, which (hopefully) provided a richer source of course material as well as making the notes more enjoyable for the students to use. One disadvantage of the 1999 version of the author's notes was that they were stored as files on the local network, which means they were inaccessible from outside TWP. This year, the notes have been incorporated into TWP's WebCT server, which in addition to making them available outside the Polytechnic also provides a bulletin board where students can post queries to the tutor and share ideas. This paper provides the results of a survey which was given to the students in 1999 on the general effectiveness of CourseWeb. In addition, the paper reports the results of a survey given to the students in 2000 that assesses the effectiveness of the notes using WebCT with its extra features as well as the author's experience using WebCT.

Keywords: Internet delivery, online learning materials, WebCT

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