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Does anybody known of a web-based university course entirely built with Mathematica? I mean one where the whole course (lectures/labs/exams) is presented in Mathematica FrontEnd form.

My point is that Mathematica is very user-friendly, supporting the principle "if you can visualize this data/process, you must do it". I suppose this feature makes Mathematica very attractive for wide use in university courses, if not now then in the near future. So I am looking for exising examples. Any links?

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hi; what exactly is a web-shared course? is this different than an online course? may be if you provide a link to such course that will help. – Nasser Dec 19 '12 at 19:31
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Such courses may exist here and there, but mostly created by professors who are at the same time expert Mathematica users / programmers. I know of only one reference of the kind you look for: Math Desktop software (and it is not web-shared). I am sure others will add more links. But my point is, I am not aware of any general framework for this, and creating a complete such solution in Mathematica requires a very significant programming effort. But I agree that M still is an ideal patform for such things. – Leonid Shifrin Dec 19 '12 at 19:34
I've taken a course, computational physics at Univ. California, Irvine. We used Mathematica notebooks for everything. We get notebook that contain the problem and submit back the notebooks online with the solution in them. Instructor had his own Mathematica book in notebook form that we used to study from. Here is the course official web site eee.uci.edu/07f/48192 and here is a link for a post I made on it sometime ago with link to my page there for my own web page of the course sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.math.symbolic/2007-03/… – Nasser Dec 19 '12 at 21:44
The state of Victoria (Australia) will be heading down this path soon for high school math courses but your question is for university courses. I think they have or are about to trial implementing their exams in Mathematica with a sub-group of schools. – Mike Honeychurch Dec 20 '12 at 3:18
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I gave a course on Mathematica as a tool for astronomy and physics completely done in form of Mathematica notebooks. – Markus Roellig Dec 20 '12 at 9:12
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A pioneering web site in this respect is the one by James Kelly, who unfortunately passed away in 2007 as the linked web page states. His lecture notes are very high quality and all written as notebooks.

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There's a second year mathematics and a computation physics course taught by Paul Abbott at the University of Western Australia that uses Mathematica for all of the lectures, workshops and assessments.

The maths course uses a customised stylesheet and the assessment notebooks have automated FTP uploading to the assignment dropbox. However, most of the assessment notebooks are normally only available during the times that the course is being taught.

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