Part of my schooling in China will be taking a Purdue course over the internet. There will be a course video posted after each lecture for all of us in China to view on our own time (Update: this may or may not be true; I recently learned that there may actually be a scheduled time slot to watch the lectures as a group). We will be assigned homework concurrently with the students at Purdue. The main difference is clearly we won't be able to be in the classroom at anytime to physically turn in homework or ask questions.
Both of these issues have been solved. For being able to ask questions, there is a class blog, much like the one you're reading right now. Homework problems are posted on the blog and students are welcome to visit and ask questions in the comments. The questions asked are then answered on the blog by other students. I have been part of a learning experience like this in one of my other mechanical engineering classes. The system works fairly well and the response times were short, at least while we were all in the same time zone.
In order to turn in homework efficiently we will be using a livescribe pen. On that website there are some cuties demos on how it works. Basically it'll create a PDF that we'll email to the professor, he'll grade, and then send back responses using his tablet pc. Excellent use of a tablet.
JBiber
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