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shared by Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09 - Cached

The 100 top Web apps for 2008 These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners:
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shared by Vw Prof on 15 Feb 09 - Cached

What the engineering students in Berger's classes are doing goes well beyond that – so far beyond, in fact, that the National Science Foundation awarded Berger, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, a three-year, $500,000 grant to assess the effectiveness of what he's calling "Higher Ed 2.0."
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video of the class lectures (though the camera is turned off for the last 20 minutes, lest slackers be tempted to skip class altogether).
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"solution videos," in which he demonstrates how to solve the fiendishly difficult mathematical and geometric problems
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For extra credit, some will even be invited to post their own solutions to problems that cannot be solved before the end of the regular lectures.
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Berger explains his students-helping-students philosophy. "Engineering is a collaborative enterprise, so I like it when they learn from each other. I think they can learn from each other just as well as they can learn from me," he says. "If they have a study group or an online thing where they teach each other, I think that's really positive, because that's the way modern engineering is practiced."
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