Welcome to Bob McLean's Home Page
I
am a professor in the Computer Applications in Education specialization in the
Department of Curriculum, Teaching
and Learning at OISE/UT, The Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education of the University
of Toronto. My 1999-2000 courses will include the following (note that the
course outlines will not be available until nearer the start of term; the title
links will take you to course outlines of recent instances of the course):
[Course code: F = First term ("fall"), H = full year, S = Second term ("spring")]
Descriptions of the courses offered by the CTL Computer Applications
in Education specialization can be obtained at these links:
Other activities and information:
- I was the original webmaster for OISE/UT, and an honourary member and loiterer
in the "Education Commons", OISE/UT's unit that combines information services
on computers, library, publications, etc. I'm helping to exploit the possibilities
of the computer portion of the Education Commons.
- By the way, you can find all references in the OISE Bulletin to the word
McLean
(or any other word therein, in the OISE
Bulletin with an early search facility I implemented.
- I'm a member of the CSILE
group at OISE/UT, and a technical architect of the original CSILE server and
on the current Knowledge
Forum™ implementation team.
- I'm a founder of the Educational Computing
Organization of Ontario (ECOO), and a frequent Core Program Chair of the
ECOO Conference, including the 21st Annual Conference of the (ECOO), May 4-6,
2000, at the Royal Constellation Hotel, Toronto. Information can be obtained
from the ECOO Office, 905-773-3981. Better yet, visit the ECOO
Conference Web site to get detailed information.
- At the 1998 ECOO Conference, Chris Teplovs and I gave session H01, Object
Orientation with Perl 5. In 1995, I gave a workshop on Web
publishing and the 13th
Almost Annual ECOO Silly Session which poked fun at the Internet and Education.
In 1996, my session looked at ways to implement educational
dynamic interaction on the Web, and also offerred the 14th Silly Session,
though no Web record of that event survives. In 1997 I abandoned the Silly
Session, but presented session A07: Perl, CGI, and JavaScript for Educational
Web Interaction..
- I was an early adoptor of Virtual-U,
an educational conferencing system which is a beacon technology of the Canadian
Centres of Excellence TeleLearning
Research Network developed by researchers at Simon Fraser University.
In the last few terms, I've been using Web Knowledge Forum for my distance
courses.
Robert S. McLean, Professor
Computer Applications Specialization, Curriculum , Teaching and Learning
Department
The Ontario Institute for Studies
in Education / University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6
email: RMcLean@oise..utoronto.ca
Last update: 990929