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Kent
State University Online Web Courses See form and function merge into a beautiful yet utilitarian online course environment. KSU offers its courses to everyone enrolled students, non-degree applicants and high school students. The courses themselves cover a broad spectrum, from engineering to nursing to politics. Try out the demo and see how they have chosen to implement their Web-based courses. |
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Brigham
Young University Independent Study BYU is using the Web to deliver distance education and continuing education courses. Worthy of note is the support of a CD-ROM course component for multimedia modules. Visitors are free to browse the course sites (though some areas are prohibited). Compare the interface of this environment with others that you have experienced to define the optimal design for your own course. |
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Center
for Flexible Learning "The Centre for Flexible Learning was established in 1997, with a mission to enhance Macquarie University's ability to design and develop high quality flexible education which can be offered as on-campus, distance, international, open or continuing education programs." Visit their site to find well-organized WBL resources. |
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Supercourse:
Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health An example of high-quality intellectual interaction via the Internet. The developers of the Supercourse have built "a global distance learning program for health. We wanted to improve health and higher education by using systems technologies that have proven to be effective based upon principles from the Internet culture, cognitive psychology, and quality control in manufacturing. We also wanted to make it available to as many people as possible. As a result we have constructed a 'supercourse' having now 104 lectures." Not only do they address the need for peer review, they utilize the Internet to democratize the process. |
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Virtual
Resource Site for Teaching with Technology UMUC-Bell Atlantic Virtual Resource Site for teaching with technology. It showcases projects by discipline and provides background information on various technologies (including their implementations' levels of difficulty). Check out the page describing four steps to launching a successful online course component. The site will consist of two modules, the first of which provides resources for use in the selection of appropriate media to accomplish specific learning objectives. Module 2, when it becomes available, will provide resources for faculty using technology in research assignments, small group projects, and discussions to encourage activi |
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Spanish
Web-based Instruction Freely browse the course sites of several online Spanish courses to see a different solution to Internet-based distance education. Though the presentation of content is primarily plain HTML, they make excellent use the hypertext medium to connect ideas, information and activities. |
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Celtic
Music Online Course As might be expected, many of the courses to offer online components have been technical in nature. This course offered by the University of Wisconsin at Madison is proof that the faculty in the humanities are leveraging the Internet just as well as their more technically oriented brethren. A visit here will give a view into what other faculty have accomplished with Blackboard. |
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Old
Dominion University: Learning Communities Learning Communities is a program that allows groups of 20 to 25 entering freshman students who have expressed a common interest in an intended major to take a small cluster of courses together during their first semester at Old Dominion University. |