COMWEB - AN ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM FOR TEACHING COMPUTER LITERACY

We have developed an electronic classroom environment based on an anal og/digital hybrid network, ComWeb. This environment supplements tradit ional methods of presentation by providing powerful communication tool s between the students and the teacher directed from the instructor's workstation. The instructor can access every student's workstation at any time to monitor the student's work or to transmit information from any source. ComWeb has facilities for individual and group supervisio n. It can be adapted for teaching deaf or hard of hearing students in a mainstream environment. We describe the implementation of a ComWeb-b ased classroom at our site. The performance of students in conventiona l sections of a computer literacy course is compared with that in a se ction using ComWeb. For most of the material, performance of students in the ComWeb based section was markedly superior. (C) 1997 Elsevier S cience Ltd. All rights reserved.