University of Heidelberg
Suzanne Heiob
Department of Computational Linguistics
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CL in Heidelberg:
Established in 1988 Magister (masters) degree since 1994 At present 264 students 214 studying CL as major field 50 studying CL as minor field App. 50% foreign students, 50% women
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Question:
E-Learning: what´s there?
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Course materials I
In principle, all teachers are expected to provide additional materials with their courses in the web
Every teacher is responsible for the design and the contents of his/her own course materials
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Course materials II
Scripts and slides of the courses are disseminated in pdf-format
Exercises and solutions are sent exclusively via the internet
Some courses are supplemented by source code, additional links or Java-Applets
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Course materials III
Student papers are included in the course documentations
Programs developped by students are archieved and documented in the web
The internet is also used for intense communication (good experiences with Wiki)
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Assessment of efforts
Lots of efforts spent for each course when it is developped
Moderate efforts to adminstrate the infrastructure
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Use of the on-line course materials
The course materials are used by approximately 79 % of the students
During teaching time the course pages are accessed 5,000 times per day from 200 different hosts
#1 retrieved by google for keyword „Computerlinguistik“
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Summary
Up till now extensive scripts, slides, exercises and solutions are disseminated in html or pdf-format via the internet
-> We are very much interested in the exchange of online course materials with other sites
-> We are interested in a cooperation in order to provide advanced materials on a common E-Learning platform
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Contact
www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de
Prof. Dr. Peter Hellwig ([email protected])
Dr. Anke Holler([email protected])
Dr. Markus Demleitner([email protected])