Surviving the Online Jungle Teaching Technology Courses

Online

League for Innovation 2005Dallas, TX

October 24, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PMMonet Ballroom, Tower Mezzanine

Who Are We?

Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA

• Patricia RahmlowAssistant Professor, Computer Scienceprahmlow@mc3.edu

• Marie HartleinAssociate Professor, Computer Sciencemhartlein@mc3.edu

• Linda MoultonProfessor Mathematics and Computer Sciencelmoulton@mc3.edu

http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/Presentations/index.html

Course Management Software

• Blackboard

• WebCT

• eCollege

• Others

Course Layout and Navigation

• Buttons – Style– Minimize number – Meaningful labels

Course Content

• Open in new window• Post by week, by

chapter– HTML, Word, PDF

files

FAQ’s

– Update based upon past student questions

Student Handouts

• PowerPoint Slides convert handouts, 3 to a page, to PDF

• www.primopdf.com – free

Course Layout and Navigation

• Adaptive Release Feature– Release content

based on various criteria

• Date• Student ID / Group• Grade on grade book

item• Review of grade

book item• Video on feature

http://www.blackboard.com/corp/objects/images/quicktutorials/adaptiverelease.swf

Making an Online Course Dynamic

• Publisher Tools– SAM, TrainIt– Active Help Desk, Sound Bytes

• Short Learning Modules– Merlot (www.merlot.org)– Faculty developed (Flash, ScreenCorder,

Camtasia, Microsoft Producer, Authorware) http://faculty.mc3.edu/prahmlow/learning_objects.htm

Interaction Student/Student and Student/Faculty• Asynchronous

– Email– Discussion board (read / unread messages,

search by student, forums by topic / week)• Let’s Get Acquainted• Student Lounge• Help Forum

Interaction Student/Student and Student/Faculty

• Synchronous– Blackboard Virtual Classroom

• Text, Web Navigation– MC3Live!

• Text, Voice, Video, Web Navigation, Desktop and Application Sharing, File Sharing

– AIM• Text, Voice, Video, File Sharing

Providing Software to Online Students

• MSDN Academic Alliancehttp://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/overview/default.aspx

• Software included with textbook

– Trial version of Office– Full version of programming language

Providing Software to Online Students

• Student version of softwarewww.campustech.com

• Free software– Word processing

www.openoffice.org/– Java

www.jgrasp.com– Alice

www.alice.org

Assignments

• Format– Zip multiple files with

WindowsXP

Assignments

• Method of receiving assignments – Email– Dropbox– Assignment feature

Assignments • Feedback

– Word tracking feature highlighting errors– Post solutions– Email each student– Assignment feature comments / upload file

Assessing Students - Quizzes

• Format– Blackboard / WebCT– SAM, Train/IT– Textbook web sites– Timed / untimed

• Purpose– Self-study versus graded / combo

Assessing Students - Exams

• On-campus, proctored• Online, unproctored

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