Digital Chem 1A Study

Digital Chem 1A Study

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Costs, Culture, and Complexity: An Analysis of Technology Enhancements in a Large Lecture Course at UC Berkeley

The Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), in partnership with the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC) and the College of Chemistry, was awarded a two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Cost Effective Uses of Technology in Teaching program initiative for the years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.

The project brought together a diverse and distinguished team of researchers from Economics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and the Graduate School of Education.

The evaluation team addressed specific questions related to the use of online lecture and laboratory material, and their potential to free up teaching staff time and/or serve more students off-site. The primary goals were to determine:

• if the utilization of on-line teaching materials results in significant restructuring of staff time,
• if more students can be accommodated with a reuse of lecture and laboratory space, and
• if the technology enhancements affect student performance and attitudes.

Principal Investigator: Diane Harley, Ph.D.