Transcript Web based education - International Centre for Diffraction

Summary
• Two recommendations – Split up existing Educational Resource
Kit and put it on the web at no or very
low cost.
– Develop prototype other educational
programs intended and optimized for
web delivery. Consider NSF or other
funding.
Web based education
• Wide variety of materials on Web
– The usual mixed bag, where some are excellent
on content and presentation, many are very
good, some dead links, etc
• At least two fee based courses in powder
diffraction via the web
• Many links are indexed at various sites CCP14, ACA, IUCr, ...
Several types of resources on
web
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Instructive discussions
Text type (IUCr pamphlets, AH YSU, …)
Real time simulations (Bragg law ...)
Applets for demonstration (Fourier maps
...)
• Applets and scripts for calculating
(adsorption curves for an alloy ...)
• Reference information ( Strukturbericht
Designation, atomic scattering factors,…)
Instructor lead courses
• The Internet Course Powder Diffraction on the WEB, offered as a
distance-learning Advanced Certificate awarded GBP £ 372 - 1488
(~ 500 - 2000$). One year course, ~162 hours (estimated), M.
Attfield, P. Barnes, J. K. Cockcroft School of Crystallography,
Birkbeck College, University of London
• SDPD Internet Course Structure Determination by Powder
Diffractometry 500 - 1000 euros (~440 - 880 $) A. Le Bail
University of Maine (France)
• Protein crystallography and texture analysis classes also available
Current ICDD education
products
• Powder XRD and XRF courses
– ~40 Hr classes - lecture and hands on
• Education Resource Kit
– text, card images, search manual
– description of indexes, cards
– historical information
• Recommend Educational Resource Kit be
modified for web.
– History and definitions moved to Web in general
ICDD links (ICDD history, “front matter pages”,
“what is a PDF anyway?) These should be
developed and maintained separate from any
educational system links.
– Chapters 4, 5 , 6 and 7 - need access to the
educational indexes, educational data book to be
useful. These chapters will need minor editorial
review by a task team. Careful layout will be
needed to optimize learning and minimize
surfing away (con’t next page)
Con’t
– Chapters 4, 5 and 6 should be placed in a “How
to use our product” home page. Answer sets
available by request. May provide a guide to
how many people actually tried to solve the
patterns
– Access to chapters 4, 5, 6 & 7 has a cost - fill out
a user form. Access to be for a limited time but can be renewed.
– Educational indexes and databook available as
a download in Adobe pdf format for no to a
nominal fee perhaps 5 to 20$
– problem set(s) available as a download in text or
excel tables at no cost.
– Multi languge (english, spanish, japanese, … )
Expanded web activities.
• Recommend additional task team be identified to
study development of interactive on-line
educational products for training in the 2 to 40
hour range.
• Options
– Prototype this in a 2-hour module for an
introduction to TXRF.
– Prototype an XRD module perhaps based on the
EMMSC program (hardcopy available for
review in lobby)
– Consider seeking NSF (or other) funding to
create a product.
Program goals
• A significant part of the Educational Resource Kit
is really an “owners manual” to our product.
• Task team has looked at these items where goal is
to expose people to and to promote powder
diffraction. Key interface might be to
undergraduate students in material science type
programs. Perhaps pharmaceutical arena?
• TXRF program to help industrial users. Presents
oportunity to get into market.
• Goal(s) and imlementation of online program need
to examined in greater detail. [Task team,
marketing and ?] target audience, fee?, how long 10 hrs? 40 hrs?,
Separate Modules?, Interaction with instructor?, Software requirements
• Task team will need not yet determined HQ
support for Educational Resource Kit transition
and for generating prototype course.