Hello everyone,

First, forgive multiple emails if you are on more than one of these lists. As I notified you earlier, the online course discussion group will meet this semester at 3:30 on Thursdays, room 220 Ellison Hall (unless otherwise announced).

 

During the first meeting last Thursday, we generated a list of topics that we’ll be discussing this semester.  If there’s something you’d like to bring up that isn’t on the list, please let me know. Here’s the (tentative) schedule for the next few weeks:

 

September 16                Demonstration of useful tools                 

Laura Gibbs       EZ Board

                                    June Lester       Markin

 

September 23                Show and tell of current online courses

                                    Sherry Cox        VoiceBoard demo         

 

September 30                Using discussion boards in online courses – bring your case studies

 

October 7                      Group work in online courses – facilitating; evaluating

 

October 14                    IT’s course management team—Anita Tom, Michelle Davis

 

October 21                    Faculty training for teaching online courses         

 

October 28                    Beth McCoy      Digital Media Lab

 

                        Future topics                 Dates TBA

                                                            Working with students with disabilities in online courses

                                                            Plagiarism

                                                            Research models for studying online courses

                                                            Resources – OU Libraries

                                                            Tools demonstration – Blogger, Quia, Blackberry, Electronic course packs, IM, Xanadu

                                                           

                                                           

Thanks.                                                

 

Karen Cozart

Coordinator, Distance Learning Programs

College of Arts & Sciences

University of Oklahoma

(405) 325-7943

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