Course Management System

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Course Management System
November 13, 2003
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Topics

• Why WebCT?
• WebCT growth
• Support Issues
• Course Redesign Projects
• New refreshed PRESENT web site
• Winter Faculty Institute
• Consolidated grants program

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Why WebCT?

• Committee of staff faculty
• Vendor and University presentations
• Criteria usability, functionality, company
  responsiveness
• Actual decision

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Student usage
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Number of courses
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Non-academic Usage

• Supporting uses of WebCT not directly related to
  courses
• Occupational Health and Safety 2,000 students
• Fulbright Scholars
• Nurse Mentors
• Training Ice Skating Judges

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Support Strategies

• Training
• Required introductory training
• Other classes
• Interactive Student Activities
• Quizzes and Surveys
• Organizing Course Material
• Course DesignBeyond Basics (NEW)
• Grading
• One site for all WebCT information

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Accessing WebCT
www.udel.edu/webct
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Support Strategies

• Awarding grants to achieve redesign
• Showcasing faculty efforts
• Creating an online introduction
• Looking for ways to leverage our instructional
  design resources
• Hiring graduate assistants
• Streamlining our course creation process

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VISTA in our future?

• Database version
• True enterprise-wide product
• Ability in integrate real time with Student
  Information systems
• Centralized implementation with local control
• Facilitates content sharing

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Course Resign Projects

• Virtual Microscope
• Students were failing the practical lab
  experiment
• Teaches microscopy not a virtual lab
• Available from MERLOT
• Other efforts to more closely align lab and
  lectures

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PsychologyLearning Motivation

• Revitalizing the Keller method, self mastery of
  textbook material
• Hypothesis computer technology can overcome
  problems that led to its decline
• Course Changes
• On demand (on line tests)
• Replace lecture with small groups
• Replace term paper with focused labs
• Technologysecure testing center

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Secure testing center
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Resources
at The University of Delaware

• WebCT Access and Information
• www.udel.edu/webct
• PRESENT, UDs Teaching, Learning, and Technology
  Center
• www.udel.edu/present