I'm glad to hear that someone other than CUNY has found CALI usage to be very
low. We are charter members but we have never succeeded in getting faculty to
adopt the exercises widely or consistently.
As the exercises expanded their hard disk requirements each year, and as the
system, word processing and other applications also expanded with each
upgrade, we finally ran out of hard disk room and stopped preloading the CALI
stuff. If a professor adopted an exercise, we loaded that one. I don't think
that raised the difficulty level from the faculty point of view, but maybe it
lowered my evangelist fervor. At any rate, this past year we had zero usage.
We are upgrading our student Macs this summer, including much larger hard
drives, so we plan to give CALI one more chance this coming year. The full
set of exercises will be loaded in at least one of the library computer labs
(10 Macs), and possibly more (up to 50 throughout the building).
I will send the faculty the list of CALI exercises and encourage them to look
at them, and then we'll see whether we can get any adoptions--or at least
student usage for personal review.
If not, you can tell your Dean it's only 159 subscribers...
Greg Koster
CUNY Law School
gek@maclaw.law.cuny.edu
"This is what the Lord asks of you, only this: to act justly, to love
tenderly, and to walk humbly with your God."--Micah 6:8
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