Two tutors, originally written in Hypercard^®, have been converted to HTML to see how they play in a platform-independent medium. (Those with Macintosh computers may also be interested in HyperTA -- used to create the originals.) The tutors here are quite different from each other in format and content -- and should be regarded as experiments in web-based computer-assisted instruction. I'm particularly interested in feedback on how such exercises could be more effective or work more smoothly. [Meanwhile, anyone who regards either format as useful is welcome to use them as templates.] Please send email to tfield@piercelaw.edu -- thanks in advance!

• Substantive Basics
  This is a merged version of the first two of thirteen exercises supporting the course, Fundamentals of Intellectual Property. Using twenty-five questions with modestly tailored feedback, this tutor was originally designed to help students gain early familiarity with important concepts treated in The Practical and Legal Fundamentals of Intellectual Property -- an article that functions as an expanded syllabus.
  As presently set up, the tutor uses (two) frames. Questions are in the upper one. The lower frame provides feedback; each block ends with "continue" and links to the previous or to the next question. The hope is that some will find that this format makes learning a few IP basics more interesting than otherwise.
  While it is not designed for that purpose, users can also scroll to anything of interest in either frame.

• Process Basics
  This exercise is both reference and tutor. In Introduction to IP, and a few other courses, it functions mostly as the former. In Administrative and Related Processes in IP, it serves a more tutorial function. Unlike the first, this page is in narrative, not question-and-answer, format and can be used by those whose browser does not support frames.

Modified 6/17/98
URL: http://www.piercelaw.edu/tfield/iiptutor/iptutors.htm