ConsiderIT with Colleagues: Fall 2002
What Design Strategies Do You Use for Developing Online Courses?
How to Run Labs for 360 Students a Week and Not Say a Word...
Building Technology-Rich Learning Opportunities at the Library: Web-based Research Tutorials, Onsite Collaboratories, Media lab, and More...
"What Design Strategies Do You Use for Developing Online Courses?"
Terri Buckner, School of Education, and Evelyn Daniel, School of Information and Library Science, November 15, 2002
Teaching and Learning Activities: In this session, Terri Buckner and Evelyn Daniel led a discussion about design issues for online learning. After a brief overview of online learning principles, the discussion focused on three levels of course design: activities design, information design, and interface design. The group discussed the variability in sequence of these activities--perhaps faculty thinking first of what they want their students to know, do, and understand and perhaps designers thinking of the interface first. Issues arose such creating an easy-to-understand interface for the course content, transferring leadership roles to students, and strategies for minimizing the time instructors spend on non-instructional activities.
Computer Technology Used: A variety of technologies were discussed.
Equipment Used: N/A.
"How to Run Labs for 360 Students a Week and Not Say a Word..."
Bob Shrewsbury, School of Pharmacy, October 25, 2002
Teaching and Learning Activities: Each week, 360 pharmacy students cycle through Professor Shrewsbury's lab. Before his Pharm Labs website (http://pharmlabs.unc.edu), he found himself answering the same questions dozens of times, and even with TAs, not being able to get help to the students when they needed it. So, Prof. Shrewsbury, with the help of student employees, has created web-based lab tutorials that students may review before lab or reference from six stations during lab. The tutorials use audio/video clips to demonstrate the lab experiment and show expected results. During labs now Prof. Shrewsbury can address issues of applying the lab principles in pharmacy practice rather than showing how to do the experiment.
Computer Technology Used: Clips available in AVI and Real formats. Created in Adobe Premiere.
Equipment Used: Sony VCR-100 camera and Lowel Pro studio lights.
"Building Technology-Rich Learning Opportunities at the Library: Web-based Research Tutorials, Onsite Collaboratories, Media lab, and More..."
Lisa Stimatz and Kim Vassiliadis, House Undergraduate Library, October 11, 2002
Teaching and Learning Activities: Library Instructional Services (http://www.unc.edu/instruct/) is working to support graduate and undergraduate research and multimedia projects. To support research activities, the library has been working with faculty to customize the library's web-based tutorials for specific course assignments. The tutorials introduce students to relevant information resources in their discipline, offer search tips and criteria for source evaluation, and provide guidance on citing and avoiding plagiarism. The renovated House Undergraduate Library (http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/) also provides students access to a collaboratory filled with hardware and software for authoring web pages, scanning and editing digital images, and creating short video clips. The library also offers a high-end audio and video editing lab, with a sophisticated audio editing lab coming in the spring. . Faculty interested in assigning multimedia or web-based projects are invited to contact Kim (kimv@email.unc.edu) or Lisa (stimatz@email.unc.edu) for more information.
Computer Technology Used: For the web tutorials, Dreamweaver for basic html and javascript authoring, as well as PHP. The Collaboratory and Digital Media Lab have a wide variety of software and hardware available.
