Prof ROSSITER David
- Awards for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, 2001
- School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award, Fall 1998-99, Fall 2000-01
For my course I try to find ways to 'immerse' the students in the subject, so that instead of perhaps feeling that they are on the 'outside' of a subject looking inwards, they are instead deeply involved in it. For example, on my multimedia course students need to record their own voice and create programs to manipulate their recording; they need to take a digital image of their face and write algorithms to progress it; they need to have a video of themselves taken and make programs to process the video. In short, they learn the subject matter in a way which heightens their interest and enjoyment.
For my Internet Computing course this kind of individual immersion is harder to achieve due to the nature of the subject. Instead, student interest is encouraged in part through the use of interesting projects which are 'fun' and which encourage some creativity, but still require thorough understanding of the techniques being taught. Another approach used is to require the students to work in groups in order to create Internet-based community projects such as chat rooms and whiteboard systems. The experience of building a system so that they can meet and work with their friends through the Internet encourages a high level of interest in the project and the related techniques, and helps them develop group work skills.
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