Experience with developing and dispensing research results and advanced course materials on the World Wide Web

Under a joint NSP grant on Research and Curriculum Development, principal investigators including faculty members from the Manufacturing Engineering Department of Boston University, the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and the Discrete Event Dynamic Systems Group of Harvard University are developing Internet-based software laboratories, demonstrations and teaching modules in the area of DEDS. The main form of dissemination that they propose is to make available a number of “course modules” of one to three weeks of teaching duration involving electronic laboratory, audio-visual lectures, course notes, homework with solutions, review questions, and quizzes. Our view is that prospective instructors can combine various components as needed in order to create their own courses after downloading the material