Notas:
- The experience that we want to present is the NetLab
experience, where a local intranet was used to conduct
most of the project supporting materials in a Web
homepage for students access in order to select the most
adequate elements for their projects (in and out the
classrooms).
- All the students can access the network via Web services
at the university from Classrooms, Labs, and Library. And
outside the University, via an Internet Service Provider;
the way to communicate with the students was by
publishing the information and wait for their individual
reaction to that, based in some few basic rules. The
project proposals where posted on line as the clues to
use them.
- The class selected is Information Systems and was chosen
in order to test the potential of the intranet facilities
to soften the theoretical and descriptive bias of the
content subject. Also, the courses selected belong to non
technical related student type, with little knowledge in
the use of networks or Internet/intranet services, which
where also introduced at that time. This experiment had
several goals in mind:
- training students to be more active and test
their individual capacity to collect information
- force students to manage their project
submissions and interact among then
- give a choice of place/time to interact with the
professor and class materials
