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- CALICO ‘99
- Lori Williams / Christine Bauer-Ramazani
- Saint Michael’s College
- e-mail: lwilliams@smcvt.edu
- cbauer-ramazani@smcvt.edu
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- Initiated by a faculty member, NOT an institutional decision
- Project team formed to respond to needs of GSL520 both as an on-campus
class as well as a DE course
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- Electronic Reserves
- Will material scan well to be formatted for Acrobat Reader?
- How will overseas sites have access to electronic reserves?
- Permission from authors to transfer formats?
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- GSL520 Website
- Ongoing maintenance
- Assistance in creating forms - Student Information Form
- Access to user documentation for:
- word processing
- email
- web authoring
- MS-PowerPoint--Basic
- password protection of website
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- Software & Hardware
- Pueblo for SchMOOze University
- digital camera
- microphones and headsets
- software installation for demos
- Space to save multimedia projects
- web space?
- virtual drive on network?
- public folder in MS Exchange?
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- Synchronous
- NetMeeting
- Asynchronous
- email distribution
- public folder
- virtual drive
- online journal
- message board
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- support of faculty for course(s)
- understanding of how delivery of courses would differ from traditional
means and still retain pedagogical quality
- training in use of technology
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- New Role for teacher
- facilitator who provides context & instruction for the mode of
interaction to take place and the dissemination of information
- receives & evaluates information & feedback
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- Funding support & compensation
- In-house solutions
- increased support staff for technical support
- faculty development grant
- Financial aid (workstudy student)
- Outsourcing solutions
- instructional design consultant
- web course management tools investment
- turnkey solution (Campus-wide Services: Registrar, Bursar, Library,
Student Services)
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- Compensation
- Release time for course development
- Additional compensation for time consuming online delivery feedback
- Satellite campuses
- onsite facilitator - curricular support
- technical contact - technical support
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- Selecting a course for online
delivery: Why Computer-Assisted
Language Learning?
- Personal interest / motivation
by the faculty member teaching it
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- Selecting a course for online
delivery: -- Why Computer-Assisted
Language Learning?
- Personal interest / motivation
by the faculty member teaching it
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- Possibility for students to learn about the technology (its strengths as
well as its limitations) by actually using it
- Built-in experimentation with technology: HOW TO’s
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- Electronic communication of results of experimentation to the instructor
and/or the class via S T
e-mail, class e-mail (distribution list), comments in the online class
discussion forum, comments in the individual student’s online journal
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- Experimentation limited to capabilities of technology available to all
students
- Limited to using the lowest common denominator technology / possible
equipment incompatibility
- Many advanced types of technology may not available in overseas sites (processor
speed, fast Internet connection, communication software)
- Slow Internet connections (14.4 bps modems, no T1 lines), slow down-
& uploads
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- Possible equipment incompatibility
- Internet congestion at peak times
- Unreliable Internet connections/ intermittent service overseas (Colombia)
- Time zone differences
- Students must have basic computer competence, facility with basic
troubleshooting, and certain confidence level
- approximately double the preparation time for faculty member
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- Course Information: Syllabus,((Course description, Course Requirements,
Evaluation), Course Calendar (with
Links to Class Assignments & Readings), Texts and Electronic
Reserves,,Resources (Webliography)
- Classroom communication tools:: e-mail (individual & class
distribution), Message Board /Announcements, Webboard or Listserv (for
conferencing, link sharing, personal messages)
- Electronic Discussion Forum, Text/Voice Chat Room, Tools
- Electronic Journal
- Electronic Teaching Tools: MS-NetMeeting (Conferencing, Audio & Video,
Share & Collaborate,Whiteboard, Text Chat,. File Transfer)
- Assessment Tools: Electronic Gradebook, Course Evaluation Questionnaire
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- Costs
- Development:
- cost of a workstudy student
- cost of time/effort spent by
supporting project team
- cost of a technical assistant
- Support
- ongoing cost of a workstudy
student
- hoping for release time & a
technical assistant
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- Compensation
- Recognition of online course development and delivery as part of
scholarship
- Incentives for faculty to develop online courses
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- What had we hoped for
- turnkey solution
- institutional and technical support
- What we have now
- campus intranet service
- locus of responsibility placed solely on the instructor, rather than
shared by institution
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- Implications
- faculty reluctant to undertake projects
- motivation to improve technological skills lowered
- DE course development will be limited to “early adopters”
- will not be able to limit faculty traveling
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