Surviving the Online Jungle Teaching Technology Courses Online League for Innovation 2005 Dallas, TX October 24, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Monet Ballroom, Tower Mezzanine

Who Are We?

Montgomery County Community College, Blue Bell, PA • Patricia Rahmlow Assistant Professor, Computer Science [email protected]

• Marie Hartlein Associate Professor, Computer Science [email protected]

• Linda Moulton Professor Mathematics and Computer Science [email protected]

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 Alliance http://msdn.microsoft.com/academic/program/o verview/default.aspx

• Software included with textbook – Trial version of Office – Full version of programming language

Providing Software to Online Students

• Student version of software www.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 Let’s Talk