Course Conceptualization

Web Based Education

Advantages:

easy access,
quick student access,
quick faculty access for revisions and updates,
reduces printing costs

Disadvantages:

requires a substantial technical infrastructure,
requires learners to adopt a new way of learning,
requires education of faculty who will utilize educational design,
requires resource management,
requires substantial initial time outlay

Student Solution = ROADMAP

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Developing the course:

Planning (weekly course preparation not possible)
Developing familiarity with the software
Taking a risk - some things won't work so have plan B
Teach students to be flexible, risk takers, and life long learners

Issues addressed:

Who controls the site = Housed on server at MTSU

Organization/management of website = All faculty have access to modify components of the course

Standard elements for the course (Faculty collaboration and identification of a standard presentation framework which included:

Title: Public Health Concerns for Informal Settlement Communities in South Africa
Unit identification: Unit One - Issues for Informal Settlements
Objectives: The student will
Lecture Content Format: Text only
Assignments: Utilization of study data

Key to Assignments

PEOPLE POINTS TO REMEMBER!!

People surfing the web are impatient

Readers expect visual clues

Lengthy, wordy, full screens of text are usually ignored

EDUCATION POINT TO REMEMBER!!

	View the web as another tool to deliver course content	Sorry, your browser doesn't support Java(tm).

Research and Outreach		Education
Research - putting the pieces together Sustaining the Project		Course Conceptualization Course Implementation

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