1. Provide the larger context: Any 10-week course which claims any degree of depth represents necessarily only a slice of a larger context and discipline. A system of Web sites facilitates such a broader perspective.
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3. Facilitate and improve outside-class communication between instructor and students thereby, for example, reducing the need for intervening, intermediating teaching assistants.
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4. Reduce necessity for lengthy Q & A periods dealing with logistic matters thereby saving valuable class time and limiting dependence on instructor to core instructional functions.
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5. Provide a seminar or small group atmosphere for discussion even in larger classes and encourage participation of students who might otherwise not participate.
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6. Accommodate special needs of a student population with highly diverse backgrounds and skill levels (i.e. create multi-level learning environments).
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7. Integrate the teaching of a broader range of library- and internet related resource skills into the presentation of subject areas.
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8. Provide opportunity to students to experiment with hypertextual presentation of projects.
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9. Encourage students to accept partial responsibility for their own education and ownership of their learning processes through active, electronically enhanced learning experiences and creation of a learning infrastructure in their own system of Web sites.
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10. Provide more continuity beyond the constraints of an individual quarter class by permitting early preparation (before start of the quarter) and continued Web-based "participation" in the class and class-related happenings after the quarter and the "official" part of the class is over.
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11. Promote collaboration and acquisition of teamwork skills.
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12. Instill in students the idea that they -- through their work on class projects -- are making contributions not just to themselves, their grades or my office paper collection but to their peers and, possibly, larger segments of society.
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13. Enable students to organize their daily (home-job-campus) logistics more efficiently in time & space.
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14. Enable students to expand and practice their computer communication skills
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15. Facilitate boundary-spanning communication and activities between disciplines and, as importantly, between class and community. In Economic Geography, such activities include student research, internships and Service Learning / Community Outreach arrangements.
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