My level 4 module on Functional Analysis, as taught in 2006-7 and 2007-8, is now available from the Nottingham U-NoW page
http://unow.nottingham.ac.uk/resources/resource.aspx?hid=bd32d53b-3c12-ac19-176b-d9e112731951#
In 2006-7 I taught the module using my tablet PC and made annotated slides available after the lectures. I also recorded the audio from each lecture, but not screencasts: I only started screencasting this academic year.
In 2007-8 I tried an experiment where I used the 2006-7 materials. Instead of standard lectures, I told students to read the annotated slides and listen to audio from 2006-7 up to a certain point, and we then met for question and answer sessions/tutorials/workshops instead.
I found that this worked a bit better for the small fourth year classs than a similar experiment did for a larger third year class.
See my first case study for more on the good and bad points of this methodology
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/jff/Papers/pdf/podcasting.pdf
I have spotted an unfortunate slip in the first paragraph of Section 5.1 (Open Mappings and the Open Mapping Lemma) of the 2006-7 notes/slides.
Now why didn’t any of the students mention this? The slip has been there since 2005!
See if you can spot it before reading on …
(I have fixed this for the 2009-10 students.)
Joel
Yes, that’s right, the word “continuous” is missing under unfortunate circumstances in that introductory paragraph from 2006-7 Section 5.1.
It is NOT true that ALL linear surjections between Banach spaces are open maps.
Joel
I have now made the screencasts (so far) from the 2009-10 edition of Functional Analysis available from the page http://wp.me/PosHB-8v
The printed notes and slides are available, with many other module materials, from the Nottingham U-NoW page above. (There have been no significant changes to the printed slides since the earlier edition).