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- Individual Differences
- Different learning styles
- Different life styles
- Job constraints
- Family constraints
- Personal life style choices
- Learning Theory
- Technology Developments
- Business (Consumer) Trends
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- Do Nothing
- Distance Education
- Technology Enhanced Instruction
- Multiple delivery Options
- Customized Instructional Programs
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Traditional offerings:
Lecture (35-100 students)
- Multimedia presentation support
- WWW assignment that includes "finding" the support materials for the self-directed section
- Hands-on computer sections (15-19 students)
- Powerpoint presentations
- Task delineated assignments
- Separate, step-by-step help sheets
- Open-ended projects (resume, budget, form letter)
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Telecourse (15-35 students)
- Orientation on campus
- Rigorously enforced fixed schedule
- Students may optionally complete tasks early
- "New Literacy" broadcast (or borrow tapes)
- WWW assignment that includes "finding" the support materials for the self-directed section
- On-demand dial-up or in-lab quizzes
- "On-demand" computer-based exams on campus
- Bi-weekly mailed class newsletter/progress report
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- Self-directed computer sections (12-20 students)
- Rigorously enforced fixed schedule
- Students may optionally complete tasks early
- Students may optionally "group" assignments
- Task delineated assignments
- Video tapes demonstrating the assignments step by step (could be dubbed by student or home use
- Separate, step-by-step help sheets
- Open-ended projects (resume, budget, form letter)
- On campus exams
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- WWW based Offering (12-35 students)
- Enforced fixed schedule
- Students may optionally complete tasks early
- WWW materials for each chapter that include practice
- Telnet to practice "quiz" for each chapter
- Supervised exams (three for course)
- Required "response to material" exchange of ideas on class "bulletin board"
- Optional web-based activities to enhance learning
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- Who is responsible?
- Conceptually
- College concerns: Owned by PR and ITP
- Curriculum concerns: Owned by stakeholders and instructor responsible for instructional delivery
- Course concerns: Owned by instructor within curriculum concerns
- Physically
- FLEXIBLE
- Reliable
- Accessible to all
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What makes quality in instruction
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Mileposts in developing an on-line course
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- One size does not fit all
- Technology and trends encourage innovation
- Consumer trends support innovation
- Go for it!
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