Graduate Courses, Web-based Resources and Book Over the last few years, I have taught two graduate courses at ASU each Spring semester. The first course is Quantum Physics and the second is Surfaces and Thin Films. Both had a web-based component, and the second has been taught (both on- and off-campus) primarily using the web. I also developed a related course at Sussex, Quantum Mechanical Models of Solids, with Edward Hernández and Malcolm Heggie, which was given most recently in 2005-06. This is no longer available on-line from Sussex, but the most recent and some previous versions of this QMMS Course are available on my ASU site. Under present plans, I am no longer giving the Quantum Physics course (now NAN 571/ PHY 571), and will give a somewhat changed Surfaces course (renamed NAN 546/ PHY 546) this next Spring 2009. The Surfaces and Thin Films lectures were developed into a book which was published in the Fall of 2000, and can be ordered now! Associated with these courses, book, and the talks described below, I have built up some Web-based Resources which may be of more general interest. If you want more details of a particular course, or want to add material to the resource base, please consult the associated web pages and then email me with an indication of your interests and needs. As of Fall 2008, I am Program director of a new graduate Professional Science Master's degree program, the PSM in Nanoscience, which will in due course have web-based components, including parts of NAN 571 and NAN 546. If you are interested in joining this new degree program, please follow the links and then contact us at nanoscience@asu.edu

Web-based Talks and Articles A few years ago, I wrote and gave talks on the use of the web as a supplement to teaching, particularly at graduate level. The shells of these talks can be accessed as follows. In the nature of the web, I can't guarantee that the links still work, but they did at the time of the talk. February 2005: Surviving as graduate students: What can you do to help yourselves?, given in the Physics and Astronomy Department's Research Seminar series at ASU. June 2004: Download Posters: the aim of the game (256 kB), given at a graduate student day at Sussex. This is a repeat of similar presentations given in June 2002 and 2001. Informal photos of poster presentations at our 2001 Gordon Research Conference can be viewed here. October 2000 Talk for the 5th Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning in Vienna, Austria. This series is now at the 11th workshop, which took place at the University of Szeged, Hungary in September 2006. The following talks are only of historical interest in respect of the early stages of web-based and web-enhanced teaching: Fall 1999 Talks for Aalborg Universitet Esbjerg, Denmark, Nottingham and South Bank Universities, UK. February-March 1999 Arizona talks at ASU, UofA and NAU. October 1998 UK Colloquia at Glasgow, York and Sussex. June 1998 DTU Physics Colloquium, Copenhagen December 1997 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston 1997 talks in Boston, at ASU and to the AAPT Winter Meeting The December '97 MRS talk is published in the Journal of Materials Education 20 (1998) 57-68, and a related paper has been published in Physics Education 33 (1998) 157-163, as noted on my research pages.

Latest version of this document: 19th October 2007.