Computer Intensive Physics Robert G. Fuller

Portugal Conference

March 6, 199813 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

The existence of this large electronic database made us want to try to teach a course with no paper. The students buy the electronic database, all of the lesson assignments are given to them electronically, all of the students work is submitted back to us electronically. So we had to setup a classroom (Figure 22).

Here is what the paper-less classroom looked like at the University of Nebraska. It turns out it has Macintosh Computers in it. The tables are arranged in a kind of disarray. You can see me there teaching. You notice I projected something on the wall but only one of the students is looking at it. The others are watching their computer screens.

This classroom was organized so that all the students were networked together (Figure 23). We had eight computers so we could do a class of 24 and they were networked together as shown.

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