Abstract
On-line, conversational computing has been used in our undergraduate geology and geological geophysics degree courses and found to be a powerful teaching tool. Students are able to interact with the computer through an on-line terminal. Programs can be written, run and corrected immediately by the student, thus giving strong reinforcement of their learning processes. Using the computer, real sets of data can be studied and processed, rather than the small, artificial sets necessary with a desk calculator. In the geology course the on-line terminals have been used in a “Quantitative Methods” course. Here BASIC programming and an introduction to statistics is taught. Terminals have been employed to work examples and to give insight into the use of statistical tools. In the geological geophysics degree course on-line computing is used in a number of ways. An example is given where the transcendental equation for the Love wave phase velocity dispersion curve is solved, for a simple model. Consideration of suc...
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