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"It's beautiful to look at, state of the art technology, a joy to operate, and we're very, very proud of it." But new media developer Bob Walters would like comparisons between M4E and Concorde to stop there. "We don't want everyone to think that only three people in the world can have one and it's going to cost a fortune," he says.
Quite right. M4E, the Maths for Engineers disk, is meant for everyone and it's very economical to run. Free review copies are now being issued to all UK universities and colleges who ask for it. If you want to be sure there's a review set of the DVD-Rom and the CD-Rom versions in your institution, then click here for the order form.
Containing, as the disk does, over twelve hours of video, associated printable text, and extensive interactive practice and exercises, M4E is a substantial resource to help students embarking on undergraduate courses in engineering and the physical sciences apply the maths they know and catch up on essential topics they may have missed. It's the result of a collaboration between The Educational Broadcasting Services Trust, the University of Leeds and new media company, MediaIink and has involved many others in piloting and testing it over the two years of its development.
A visual stimulus, a mental challenge and an interactive reference library, everyone will choose to work with M4E in their own way and the navigation is designed to make this an easy, intuitive and rewarding experience.
An innovation technically and an innovation educationally, M4E does not prescribe the student's route through it, as Ted Wragg pointed out when he introduced it at the 2002 BETT Conference. As he said, "How can you be creative when you're being pre-programmed?" What appealed to him was the way that, unlike so much linear computer-based material, it encourages the user to take charge of their own learning, at the same as time it provides a clear and logical framework in which to do it.
Oh, and Concorde is there. After all if you are wanting to work out a mathematical model for the acceleration of moving bodies with constant mass, as a lift-generating device what better model would you choose to look at?
The Innovations Team and all of us involved in producing M4E are keen to see that it is taken up and used. For that reason we will send it to the first person in your institution who asks for it. That way, you will have the opportunity to look at what it has to offer, to consider with your colleagues and your students how you would like to use it and what might be your best options for acquiring more.
We plan a 2-level distribution: 1) the institution acquires a Licence to Use, entitling it to multi-copy, edit and incorporate into its own courseware and deliver via its own internal network, and 2) Individual Purchase of a single pack, of both the CD-Rom and DVD-Rom versions. We will send you more details with your free review set.
We undertake to let you know if someone from your institution has already asked for the set so that you can get in touch. And if you are to be the recipient yourself, then please expect to be contacted if someone else expresses interest from your university.
Please fill in this form if you would like to receive your institution's free copies of the Maths for Engineers disk. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please note: Only 1 DVD-Rom and 1 CD-Rom set is available per institution free of charge. If disks have already been sent to your institution, you will be informed of who has received them. If you are the first applicant for your institution, please be aware that your colleagues from other departments may be contacting you.
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