Maths for Engineers WebDisk

If you are receiving an Innovations Fund grant you are expected to be doing something new. We think we are, but will it hit the spot? Will anyone know it’s there? And if they do, will their enthusiasm for it match ours, who have been shaping it and testing it and getting more and more excited about it for the past two years?…The WebDisk is for engineering students and their lecturers. It is a forest of learning with 13 hours of video split between 15 television programmes on mathematical modelling and 30 direct teaching video seminars. It has printable solutions to the modelling and interactive exercises in 50 maths topics. It remembers where you’ve been and links you to the web. And surprisingly, in a preliminary student survey, the mean usage time in the first few days was 4.5 hours with some using it for nine hours. It was highly rated and all students said they would use it again. This is high praise for what, in its early months, seemed an impossible technical and pedagogic venture.