Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance,alt.uu.misc.misc From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: TOPICS: DOC: a list of porposed topics for UU Message-ID: <1992Aug2.145137.10143@nntp.hut.fi> Summary: nic.funet.fi:/pub/doc/uu/topics-doc Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1992 14:51:37 GMT Lines: 280 Here's a (very uncomplete) draft summary of proposed topics and/or topics which might be implemented in UU: ---------------------------------------- Esperanto UU groups with overview of traffic: - alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc - just starting Interested people: - n/a Usenet groups: - soc.culture.esperanto FTP site/dir for UU: - n/a ---------------------------------------- Virtual reality (virtual worlds) UU groups with overview of traffic: - alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc - just starting Interested people: - n/a Usenet groups: - sci.virtual-worlds FTP site/dir for UU: - n/a ---------------------------------------- BALTICS ---------------------------------------- Comparative cultural studies ---------------------------------------- Multilingual computing (representing several languages etc.) ---------------------------------------- MATHS ---------------------------------------- HUMAN LANGUAGES ---------------------------------------- MISC ---------------------------------------- COMPUTERS ---------------------------------------- From: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance Subject: Usenet University course materials Date: 7 Jul 1992 10:16:31 -0400 Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan Lines: 6 Message-ID: <13c90eINN5a2@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.msen.com X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3 I have some course materials used to teach a class on Emacs Lisp. (They are in Swedish, but elisp is elisp, and it should be a good start). If anyone is organizing an emacs lisp study group / course I'd be happy to pass them along. --Ed ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future From: doom@elaine27.Stanford.EDU (Joseph Brenner) Subject: A simple way to start Message-ID: Organization: DSG, Stanford University Date: 14 Jul 92 04:25:28 You know, I would be happy with a moderated newsgroup where everyone had agreed to read the material that was being discussed. The moderator's main function would be to screen new people trying to post (have you read the material? Can I get you to read an archive of all the previous discussion?). This is something I'd be willing to do, if the topic sounds like any fun to get into. Now, it might be ideal to have the moderator be an "instructor" with previous background in the material, but I doubt it's necessary. It also might be ideal to have some assignments to be completed, but I don't think exercises should be invented for their own sake (I've had enough make work in my life), so maybe we should skip it for now. I would select a topic where the material is available on line already, and then post some notices to relevent newsgroups to see who's interested. Here's some suggestions: _The Federalist Papers_ by Hamilton, Madison and Jay (by ftp from mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu in directory /etext/etext91). Books by H.G. Wells (by ftp from info.umd.edu, in directories under info/ReadingRoom/Fiction, or so I've heard: I haven't gotten in there to check this, yet.) Complete works of Shakespeare. (On any NeXT machine, though perhaps not quite available by FTP.) ---------------------------------------- From: esz001@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Will Overington) Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance Subject: MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions. Message-ID: Date: 20 Jul 92 14:07:13 GMT Organization: Coventry University, Coventry, UK Lines: 37 20th July 1992 MOTION Course on Russian, in English, with Esperanto mentions. I put forward the motion that we should seek to create a course on learning Russian, for beginners, with the instruction being in English. The course will use Esperanto, with its regularity and logical structure as an aid by comparing and contrasting it with Russian, which like many (all?) natural languages has irregularities. This course should appeal to people who have found that the learning of Esperanto, even but a little Esperanto, has increased their knowledge of how grammatical structures work in a language. ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future From: rune@media.mit.edu (Paul Berland) Subject: UU course proposal Message-ID: Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory Distribution: alt Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1992 22:05:33 GMT Lines: 9 I would like to see a course taught at the future UU about how to argue (or present information) **CONSTRUCTIVELY** via the electronic medium. Future UU pupils could carry on trial arguments and the UU profs would make useful comments. I guess it would be kind of like a writing course except that writing over the internet (usenet, whatever) requires a whole different set of skills than any other medium. ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future From: cs_jh@cox.nsac.ns.ca (JEFF HOYLE) Subject: Further on - A great idea Message-ID: Organization: Nova Scotia AC Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1992 23:10:48 GMT Lines: 37 Oh yes! I would like to see a course on how to actually go about buying big ticket items like cars and homes etc.... It seems that we all have a lot to learn in this department! ---------------------------------------- From: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben) Newsgroups: alt.uu.future Subject: How about a seminar in History of Economic Thought newsgroup Message-ID: <1992Jun16.172723.23114@news.ysu.edu> Date: 16 Jun 92 17:27:23 GMT Reply-To: ae547@yfn.ysu.edu (Ronda Hauben) Organization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH Lines: 15 How about a seminar form in a newsgroup? For example, one newsgroup would be a history of economic thought. People could post papers on line, comments on the papers, etc. For example, I have a paper I am working on about David Hume and Usenet News which discusses the attitude toward the development of technology and its effect on society of early English economists, especially David Hume. It draws on some of his writings. If I posted the paper, people could be encouraged to read some of his writings and then discuss the paper. This could happen as part of a newsgroup under alt.uu.future, for example, alt.uu.future.seminar.econ.history Ronda au329@cleveland.freenet.edu ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Subject: Re: purpose? Message-ID: <1992Jul5.124845.876@nntp.hut.fi> Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: Distribution: alt Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1992 12:48:45 GMT Lines: 83 To continue on the idea of "natural topics" or "natural applications" for the media, or where the media has advantages over more conventional ones, language studies would make a good target, as the net spans a wide area and no doubt native speakers of many different languages. People studying languages could get help from native speakers on their writings - perhaps even dictionaries for some languages could be collected for some fields of language. Students could translate documents to other languages, and then errors would be corrected by native speakers - a UU translation service provided for the net? ---------------------------------------- From: (John Sechrest) Date: Wed, 08 Jul 92 06:55:55 +42100 Some suggestions for courses: Computers Unix Shell programming Mail systems Perl Internet tools Gopher almanac Wais Agriculture Gardening plant identification growing patterns pests .... Languages Italian Grammer Writting History vocabularly .... Journalism Writing Editing ---------------------------------------- I feel that a third and fourth set of topics should also have groups created. Discussion can proceed as to what topics to choose. Usenet University will need to have a variety of disciplines so as to get a breadth of outlook. What about history? What about mathematics? What about art? ---------------------------------------- How about the legal and/or political system of some country, or comparative stduies from a few systems? Comparative cultural studies? These would show an advantage of having participants from different frames of reference and different parts of the globe. ---------------------------------------- aug 3 1992 A "freshman's course", a meta-course to learn to study in UU and use the services of UU ---------------------------------------- Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.uu.tools,alt.education.distance From: ron@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ron Williams) Subject: Re: ADMIN,GROUPS: Designing courses Message-ID: <1992Aug4.234418.12538@syacus.acus.oz.au> Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <1992Aug3.004300.5183@nntp.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1992 23:44:18 GMT Lines: 25 jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes: : : Also, we should have a generic pedagogy group for trading experience : on course design, teaching, tips on designing courses etc. : : //Jyrki There should also be a forum for exchange and dissemination of advanced _learning_ techniques. UU would be a very self learning based environment even more so than most universities. Pedagogical techniques are fine, up to a point, but if the student has poor learning strategies, or even normal ones, they probably won't do very well in this sort of environment. I am speaking specifically of accelerated learning techniques, and especially the role of physiology, mental state, developed concentration, imagery, etc. in the learning process. Possibly a course along those lines might be of benefit as a prerequisite introduction. Ron. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Williams ACSnet : ron@syacus.acus.oz Ph : +61 2 390-1366 Internet : ron@syacus.acus.OZ.AU Fax: +61 2 390-1391 UUCP : uunet!munnari!syacus.acus.oz.au!ron ---------------------------------------- //Jyrki