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From: pun@cui.unige.ch (PUN Thierry)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: The Bezier controversy
Keywords: teaching
Message-ID: <1548@cui.unige.ch>
Date: 20 Mar 90 07:19:47 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
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As to the original posting by Ms. Dodd from Gallaudet College,
I agree with Eugene Fiume in seeing no essential difference between 
paper and electronic information support. And .. everyone rapidly 
finds out that basic knowledge is much more easily extracted out of
books than out of Usenet (at least in 1990).

In the courses I teach (*), whatever their level and the audience,
my goal is to train students to face "real world" situations. 
This in particular implies that they have access to whatever 
resources they can find, for homework as well as for examinations. 
Since exams are personal and of limited duration, they have no 
time to try out the net. But why not.

My feeling is that it is to the teachers to adapt to the changing
environment, rather than to students to be constrained by rapidly
obsolete rules. This necessitates careful thinking of examination
questions and of homework. My hope is that globally speaking,
training will be better as well as teacher's sweat production lower.

        Thierry Pun, Computer Vision Group
	Computing Science Center, U-Geneva
        12, rue du Lac, CH-1207 Geneva SWITZERLAND  
        Phone : +41(22) 787 65 82; fax: +41(22) 735 39 05
        E-mail: pun@cui.unige.ch, pun@cgeuge51.bitnet


(*) image analysis and synthesis, computer vision, introductory
    computer science for biologists.