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University of Heidelberg. Suzanne Heiob Department of Computational Linguistics. 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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University of Heidelberg Suzanne Heiob Department of Computational Linguistics
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 University of Heidelberg
Question: E-Learning: what´s there? University of Heidelberg
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 University of Heidelberg
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 University of Heidelberg
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) University of Heidelberg
Assessment of efforts • Lots of efforts spent for each course when it is developped • Moderate efforts to adminstrate the infrastructure University of Heidelberg
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“ University of Heidelberg
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 University of Heidelberg
Contact • www.cl.uni-heidelberg.de • Prof. Dr. Peter Hellwig (hellwig@cl.uni-heidelberg.de) • Dr. Anke Holler(holler@cl.uni-heidelberg.de) • Dr. Markus Demleitner(demleitner@cl.uni-heidelberg.de) University of Heidelberg