Educational Psychology 387
Computer Uses in Education

The focus of this course is on the exploration of innovative Computer Uses in Education. This is a project-oriented course, and class members will conduct a variety of projects exploring a range of new uses.

Mini-projects

• Interesting web sites found by classmembers
• Exemplary personal web pages
• Challenges to the Bruce/Levin taxonomy
• Visions of Education in the Year 2017

Major Project timeline

Resources for the class

• NCSA's Habanero project
• The Visible Human viewer Java-applet
• Information about how to create simple web forms
• Information about the 1997 AERA meeting

• A major resource for our effort is the Internet itself. Here are some of my favorite places on the Internet.
• The web pages from last semester's EdPsy 387 class and other EdPsy 387 classes will be resources for our class.
• The "Beginner's Guide to HTML" is a good introduction to the common HTML tags.
• Here are other HTML guides.

• Here is information about the College of Education's process for reviewing research involving human subjects.
• Here are the web pages for the University's Institutional Review Board (IRB), which coordinates reviews of research that involves human subjects.
• Here are some hints for getting funded.
• How to make a PPP dialup network connection with a Mac
• PPP Setup For Win95 & UIUC