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Using computer generated images and text for the whole of an undergraduate course
Author(s) -
Couper Ross,
Kaye John
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
british journal of educational technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.79
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1467-8535
pISSN - 0007-1013
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8535.1996.tb00718.x
Subject(s) - overhead projector , computer science , computer graphics (images) , course (navigation) , overhead (engineering) , engineering drawing , multimedia , programming language , visual arts , engineering , art , aerospace engineering
Computer generated images are being used to provide text and diagrams for lectures. These images are then openly available to first year undergraduates in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Systems at the University of Northumbria. A large lecture theatre is fitted with a computer‐driven overhead projector and is used to display the files to over one hundred students. The image files and a text file commentary are provided, via automated routines on department computers, for students to copy onto their own discs. The images are produced in a compressed and self displaying form, allowing all the material for the course to be contained on a single 1.4Mb floppy disc. All the material associated with these lectures is held on magnetic media. This paper describes the method used, comments on some of the practical problems of using the method, and gives some of the student reaction to it.