Advanced Certificate in Powder Diffraction on the Web Workload and Course Participation School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London

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This course has no attendance requirements at Birkbeck College itself: participation is purely via the Internet. The time requirements for this course are based on our estimates for the time spent in downloading the material, reading and understanding it. Additional time will be required for interactive exercises, assignments, and course revision.

In contrast to face-to-face teaching at Birkbeck College (or elsewhere), students on the Web course participate asynchronously: students may therefore choose to spend, if they need to, 12 hours (typically) one week and 0 hours the next. However, our experience shows that success on Internet distance-learning courses is achieved through regular study.

Due to the very nature of Internet courses, no experimental work on a powder diffractometer is possible (at least at this moment in time). Experimental methods will be demonstrated via photographs of diffractometers in "action" and real powder data, where it is used in this course, will be supplied by the course lecturers.

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