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Analyze
the Audience
All participants
should have basic computer skills and Internet skills.
This level of training is for beginners, intermediate, advanced and trainers.
All levels can benefit from this topic. The training in online technologies
is an ongoing process, beginning with basic webpage design and courseware
technologies and evolving into more elaborate technologies including enhanced
communication tools and multimedia tools.
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Learning
Objectives
- Measurable
goals for this topic:
- Participants
will develop an awareness of the online technologies available today.
These include:
- Course
management tools
- Communications
tools
- Web
page editors
- Multimedia
development tools
- Online
document editing tools
- Participants
will progressively incorporate the appropriate online technologies
into their courses.
- Critical
issues:
- Standards
set by college may limit technology choices
- Selected
technologies must be compatible with the college network
- Faculty
member needs access to the technologies in order to explore possible
implementation into course.
- Faculty
member needs time to explore the technologies.
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Presentation
of Topic Information
- What
information must be included to adequately understand this topic?
- Demonstrations
of online courses into which the technologies have been implemented
effectively.
- Hands-on
use of the online technologies
- Who are
the "experts" and what can they add? Include contact information
for each "expert".
~
FOTTC Presentation on WebTycho
- Enid Bank - UMUC
~ Conducting
Live Classes Using CorissLine, Joe Goldsmith - Capitol College
~ Introduction
to Blackboard and Online Teaching, Sue Liggett - Montgomery College
The time
needed to adequately address this topic will depend on whether or not
the faculty member's college has adopted standards for each technology.
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Available
Resources
Online
Resources
~ Online
Educational Delivery Applications: A Web Tool for Comparative Analysis
An absolute must-see for anyone trying to choose an educational delivery
application.
http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/sideside.html
~ Systems
for Distance Learning
http://distancelearn.about.com/education/distancelearn/msubsystems.htm
~ Blackboard,
Inc. commercial webite
http://blackboard.com/
~ Asynchronous
Tools
http://www.enmu.edu/~kinleye/async/tools.htm
~ WebCT
http://www.webct.com
~ Coriss.net,
Inc.
http://www.coriss.net/
~ What is
WebTycho?
http://www.ed.umuc.edu/de/whats_wt.htm
~ PBS: Serf
Course Management Software
http://www.pbs.org/als/createcourse/serf.htm
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Exercises
- Experiential
exercises to reinforce this topic.
- Possible
discussion questions.
- Which
online course management tool offers the set of features needed for
your online course?
- Considering
the various internally developed and marketed online applications
with which you are familiar, how would you compare and describe 'form
follows function' with regard to pedagogy and pedagogical styles of
teaching and presentation of learning and discussion materials? In
this case, "form" is the pedagogy and "Function" is the online application.
Submitted by Joe Goldsmith, Capitol College
- How
could the use of multimedia elements (graphics, sounds, video) enhance
your online course? What considerations need to be given to
use of these tools in terms of the student? Will all students
have the technology available to view, hear, and/or download these
enhancement tools?
- What
other technologies could enhance your online course?
- Alternative
assessment strategies could also enhance your course. What activities
would you have your students do to keep them motivated and interested
in your content and ultimately your course?
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Assessment
Strategies
- What
strategies would you use to assess understanding of this topic?
- Effective
implementation of technologies in online course.
- How would
you use these strategies to assess understanding of this topic?
- Quizzes,
exercises, post paper or PowerPoint response to website, presentations
in various formats, etc.
- Feedback
from students on student course evaluation forms
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