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Making Connections Across the Disciplines
8/27/2001
Using technology has greatly enhanced their teaching, says Ward. "Being able to show an animation of a concept several times is much more efficient than drawing and redrawing, in a crude way, on the blackboard." Using the example of scale again, Ward points out how easily he can zoom in and out using an animation and how difficult it is to do that with a piece of chalk.
Although the MCP group has not conducted a formal assessment of the project, members have noticed an increase in student attendance and an improvement in the quality of questions asked by their students. As a result, they feel students are benefiting from the revamped curriculum.
MCP's tools are now part of the NSF-funded Digital Library Project (http://aa.uncwil.edu/dl). UNC Wilmington is one of four institutions contributing to that multi-disciplinary project.
For more information, contact Charles Ward or Gabriel Lugo at UNC Wilmington; ward@uncwil.edu or lugo@uncwil.edu.
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