Description of ITC On-Line Sessions
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This is an introduction to distance learning in general, as well as the history of DL here at RIT. Topics will include: history, collaboration among students and instructor, assessing students, and research on DL.
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Send your address to: LISTSERV@LISTS.PSU.EDUAnd ask to subscribe to: DEOS-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU
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This session is an introduction to First Class and its use on the RIT Campus.
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During this time, participants will access their own FirstClass accounts and be involved in a number of hands-on activities that will familiarize them with the capabilities of FirstClass.
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During this demonstration session, Chris will present the project she worked on this past year. Participants will be "enrolled" in the project and will move through the materials, just as students would. Opportunities will be presented to assess the effectiveness of the course organization (related to Monday's discussions), as well as discuss the "lessons learned" during the development of this project.
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Faculty will work on their project and consult with ITC resource people.
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ICQ is an Internet chat program that can be downloaded from the Web free of charge. This software lets users carry on real-time text conversations with others who are on- line. This session will discuss this program and demonstrate how to download it for trial use. Faculty will then have the opportunity to evaluate the software. Other types of videoconferencing will be discussed.
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Peterson's 1998 Guide to Distance Learning Programs (Princeton, NJ, 1997) lists 744 public/private, 2/4 year colleges & universities offering some form of distance education/learning courses/programs using some form of electronic delivery. The US Dept. of Education lists 3,706 public/private, 2/4 yr institutions of higher education. When you do the math, it comes out to 20%;
The National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept. Of Education (Oct 1997) reports "A third of higher education institutions offered distance education courses in fall 1995"...58% of public 2-year and 62% of public 4-yr institutions offered distance education courses in fall 1995." You can read the report online at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/distance/98062-1.html
VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL NEWSLETTER:
http://www.openhouse.org.uk/virtual-university-press
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This session will provide faculty with the opportunity to interact with two students (Deaf and hearing) who have taken a number of RIT courses via FirstClass.
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Faculty will work on their projects and consult with ITC resource people as necessary.
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http://www.aace.org/pubs/webnet
1st Announcement & Call for Articles & Reviewers. The WebNet Journal is a new quarterly print magazine focusing on WWW, Internet, and Intranet-based technologies, applications, research, and issues. Published by AACE, the organizer of the successful and respected WebNet Conference series;the premiere issue will be available November 1998.
http://www.aace.org/conf/webnet
The WebNet Journal is designed to be an innovative international collaboration between and forum for the top academic and corporate laboratory researchers, developers, business people, and users. The Journal is seeking contributors as authors, columnists, book reviewers, Editorial Review Board members, and associate editors.
Major article topics include:
All feature articles are carefully peer-reviewed and selected by a respected international editorial review board based on merit and perceived value of the content for readers. Columnists offer how-to articles and expert commentary on the latest developments. The Corporate Development department showcases the latest products and discusses new developments. The abbreviated online version of the WebNet Journal will offer timely publication of article abstracts, columns, and related news.
or contact:
WebNet Journal/AACE
P.O. Box 2966
Charlottesville, VA 22902 USA
E-mail:
AACE@virginia.edu;
804-973-3987; Fax: 804-978-7449
http://www.aace.org
Recently, the World Organization for Online Educators was formed:
http://155.43.48.225:2020/cgi-bin/waoeconf.pl
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This session will provide faculty with the opportunity to evaluate several different videoconferencing systems, ranging from the inexpensive CU-SeeMe Internet-based desktop system to the state-of-the-art V-Tel system available in the NTID Learning Center. This session will discuss videoconferencing hardware, software, and netiquette, as well as supporting materials such as newsgroups, mailing lists (listservs), and FTP sites for videoconferencing software.
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Norm has been involved in asynchronous learning for quite some time. He will be here to talk about his use of VAX notes, bulletin boards, etc. in his classes and will share strategies for fostering interaction among students. Norm will then spend the remainder of the morning with participants, learning about their individual projects and offering his experiences as examples of effective options.
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August 5-7The Conference Planning Committee of the 14th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning invites you to join nearly 1,000 colleagues from around the world at this leading forum on distance education and training. Participants from education, business, industry, and government will come together to exchange information and explore new developments at this national/international event. This year's program features more than 100 breakout sessions and workshops emphasizing:
Marriott Madison West
Madison, WI
Best practices for effective applicationsFor the complete program, visit our website: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/distanceconf/deconf.html
Planning and management guidelines
Successful teaching methods
Course designs for active and collaborative learning
Innovative approaches, solutions, and research findings
The following "masts" or conference strands on the Franklin Clipper have been identified:
ESL/EFL: To Teach or not to Teach?
Given the variety of cultural responses internationally to English as a Second Language, this "mast" will discuss not only how, but whether, to teach English in its various manifestations as a second language, as a vocational skill or a lingua franca for the 21st century. Any level of educational experience and involvement may be appropriate for discussion. Papers may be submitted to: Duane P. Flowers, Purple Dolphin Language Academy, 3-23-1-817 Mitsuishidai, Hashimoto-city, Wakayama 648-0094, JAPAN. Email submission to: dpf@wcsnet.or.jp.
Access
Primarily addressing issues of physical disability and adaptive technology for access to the Internet, for example its use by deaf, blind or wheel-chair students and teachers, this mast may also concern itself with those issues of literacy and poverty that will also engage the attention of other "masts" on this ship.
- Norman Coombs, nrcgsh@rit.edu
The Appropriate Technology
Given differential technology between different sites, for example between students' homes and institutional capabilities, this "mast" will discuss and display various possibilities of instructional capabilities in Distance Education and in residential campus enrichment of classes by current and predicted technology.
- Roger Boston, Houston Area Community College System, 4310 Dunlavy St., Room 116, Houston TX 77006 (USA) Phone: 713/718-5224; Fax: 713/718-5301; Email: boston_r@hccs.cc.tx.us
K-12 and K-99
This mast will consider significant issues relevant to learning/training as a much needed lifelong activity. Specific emphasis will be given to K-12 (pre-college), adult, and senior-aged learning/training issues, including increasingly busy high school student schedules, business/industry needs for frequent retraining, and life-style enrichment. Use of the WWW and other technology to enrich and successfully deliver frequently updated learning/training conveniently, according to the needs of the learners, will be considered.
- Dr. Cliff Layton, layton@rogersu.edu
Globalization
As a culture-changing phenomenon and an economic force, the multi-national economics of business has defenders as well as critics, from a free-market and an ecological point of view. This "mast" hopes to engage them in positive dialogue with one another.
- John McLaughlin, PhD, Dept of English, East Stroudsburg University, E. Stroudsburg, PA, 18301; Email: johnmc@esu.edu OR to: Heiner Benking, at benking@faw.uni.ulm.de.
"Running Thro the rigging",
as we say in nautical language, will be Skipper John Hibbs' "Conferencing and Virtual Exhibitions" series of discussions, meant to engage the corporate interests who are fully aware of the educational and training implications of multi-site synchronous and asynchronous hosting in cyberspace, thro listservs, chatrooms, websites and other forms of electronic presentation. Crossing with our masts, these discussions will involve all of the above thematic contents, as they matter to business and industry on the verge of the 21st century.
- John Hibbs, hibbs@bfranklin.edu
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Faculty will work on their projects and consult with ITC resource people as necessary.
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Faculty will work on their projects and consult with ITC resource people as necessary.
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Jim has delivered this C++ course via FirstClass with on-campus students; he will be sharing his experiences and ideas with participants, as well as demonstrating some of the successful strategies he used to deliver this course.
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Faculty will work on their projects and consult with ITC resource people as necessary.
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University of Iowa:
http://adpsrvl.adp.uiowa.edu/ITS/ISDG.nsf/
University of BC offers two websites to look at courses on-line:
http://www.cc.ubc.ca/ccandc/may-june96/webct.html
http://homebrew.cs.ubc.ca/webct/webct.html
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Faculty will work on their projects and consult with ITC resource people as necessary.
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