Normal distribution of CyberRat is
through Instructor Adoption requiring
students to purchase individually
(either on-line or through University
bookstore). Price is $20 for CyberRat
or $40 for CyberRat with Learning
Tutorials if purchased directly from
(AI)2, Inc. The adopting
instructor then notifies us each
semester of the appropriate course
registration information to allow
registration setups to be accomplished
prior to that semester's use by
students.
For non-US adoptees and Special Laboratory
licenses, we sell by electronic
distribution of the CyberRat software
system by sending a (free of charges)
master CyberRat CD to the adopting
instructor. Students or departments may
then make payments in most non-US
currencies through our PayPal links for
the equivalent of $20-US to receive a
single e-mailed license number for
registering as a student using
CyberRat. Thus there is no real
"site-licensing" but rather a purchase
by or for each student must be made.
Students who make such a purchase must
then make a copy onto their own
computers (direct transfer or CD-R)
from the CyberRat master CD held by the
instructor. We do not limit how many
copies of CyberRat software are made on
how many computers. Instead, the
student's LogIn ID registered at the
time of serial number registration
limits server access only to that ID,
regardless of what computer is used for
login. Whether purchased by
schools/labs or students, one license
number may be used only by one student,
and numbers must be renewed annually if
purchased by a licensed institution.
The number of assignable license (Proof
of Purchase) numbers purchased allows
students to register for one or more
specified courses at a single school,
but the student still must use an
individual student ID for login
purposes to separate individual
assignments that are accessed by
instructors through free course
management software.
There are two packages that include
CyberRat. One is CyberRat by itself,
which includes all fundamental operant
conditioning schedules (including
required magazine training for teaching
classical conditioning procedures) plus
the Multi-Behavioral Analysis coding
trainer and analysis system. The second
package adds to this a set of 40
separate topics presented as adaptive
instructional tutorials on Learning and
Conditioning Principles (English only)
along with 8 chapter-level adaptively
constructed mastery certification tests
that are all administered on-line via
the internet. None of these products
require (or even allow) on-site server
installation. Instead, the CyberRat and
Adaptive Tutorials software resides on
individual client/laboratory computers
and this software accesses our company
servers for content, assignment
hand-ins and course administration
purposes.
Thus CyberRat or Tutorials require a
student-specific login ID that allows
instructors to track individual student
assignment and testing progress as it
is transmitted to CyberRat servers upon
each experimental session's
termination. Tracking assignments or
test results is accomplished by having
individual students register their
unique CyberRat Proof-of-Purchase
(License) number PLUS their student ID
at www.cyberrat.biz, where they then
select the specific University /
Instructor / Course / Section where
they are seeking academic credit. This
specific student ID registration allows
instructors to manage and/or monitor
the work of each student in individual
classes and sections independently of
one another via the Instructorís
Administration software system (free to
adopting instructors).
