Overview of the MANTCHI project

MANTCHI (MAN Tutoring in CHI)

Jan 1997-July 1998
The new official MANTCHI project pages
The old official MANTCHI project pages
Steve's project entry page

MANTCHI Features:

• Real use of the material on courses for credit
  
• Tutorial teaching (rather than primary exposition)
  
• Extensive educational evaluation
  
  • Evaluate not just learning objectives but teaching activities
  • Report on ideas for MANTCHI evaluation
    
• Teaching collaboration across 4 HEIs (universities)
  
  • The concept of ATOM as a unit of teaching exchange
    
• Subject matter taught: HCI (Human Computer Interaction)
  
• Use of internet/MAN in teaching collaboration
  
  • Usage levels of the MANs
• Answer Garden software (structured collection of questions and answers, plus email to experts for new answers)
  
  • The many applications of a question and answer format
• Learning by onlooking ("vicarious learning")
  • Learning by Onlooking
  • See also related projects on vicarious learning
    
• Exploring the re-use of dialogue material
  
  • The nature of re-use: Theatre vs. film as metaphor

Current good ideas related to MANTCHI (Go there now)

• The concept of ATOMs
• Evaluate not just learning objectives but teaching activities
• Learning by Onlooking ("vicarious learning")
• The many applications of a question and answer format
• Theatre vs. film metaphor: the nature of re-use
• Developing best practice for each medium or genre
• Use of the MANs

Collaborating sites:

Project chief:

Evaluation Team

Stephen W. Draper
GIST (Glasgow Interactive Systems Truc)
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ U.K.
email: steve@psy.gla.ac.uk
WWW URL: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve
Phone: 0141-330 4961 (messages: 5089)
fax: 0141-330 5086