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Psychology & Human Development Department
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| A note from the Project Directors... Welcome to the Web Wiz Project. Over the past several years, Chuck Slem and Ned Schultz have been exploring how computers, audiovisual materials and the World Wide Web might be used to enhance learning. In 1995 we developed prototype Web materials and began a search for support of our project. In 1996, with assistance from the College of Liberal Arts, we refined our prototypes and obtained support from Brooks/Cole Publishing Company and from Cal Poly Plan fees. For the 1996-1997 academic year, our project was one of two dozen special campus initiatives at the university. Our goals center on enhancing student learning and providing students with cutting-edge instructional technology. We hope to discover significant new ways of offering educational materials to students. During this project we have collected research data as an integral part of our work. Through these data we hope to discover learning and teaching strategies for university-level education in the next century. Chuck Slem has been tackling our broad, introductory general education course, Psychology 202. Ned Schultz has focused on two advanced topical courses, Psychology 310 (Death, Dying and Bereavement) and Psychology 419 (Self and Identity). By working collaboratively, we intend to create a strategy for other faculty and an overall structure of educational technology materials that connects the curriculum in psychology. Across the country, faculty have begun to develop Web pages for their courses. While the work you see here falls into that general category, we are striving to go well beyond a simple electronic syllabus. Our vision is that the Web Wiz materials, when well organized and presented in novel ways, can serve to organize and expand a student's educational experience. New materials can be developed in such a system, and these endeavors can be guided by research. Enjoy exploring the Web Wiz pages for PSY 202, PSY 310 and PSY 419. If we are succeeding, you will learn through discovery and experience...two educational values we prize highly at Cal Poly. We would be pleased to hear your reactions to our web materials. Regards, Ned W. Schultz, Ph.D.  nschultz@calpoly.eduProfessor, Psychology & Human Development Charles M. Slem, Ph.D. cslem@calpoly.eduProfessor, Psychology & Human Development |
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