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Thursday, 15 July 2004: 10:30 AM-11:15 AM | |||
Oceanic 5 (Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel) | |||
M-9: Inside the Box: UBC's e-Learning Tool Box | |||
| Detailed Description: | The University of British Columbia has developed a collection of e-Learning tools that range in application from enterprise-wide to the individual course. One tool is a status meter that includes: CPU usage, number of users, quizzes and more. Others include a tool that enables users to construct an interactive timeline with audio and visual effects and an extractor tool that allows for the export and saving of WebCT discussions as portable “learning objects”. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Integrating the campus: Technical solutions and extended uses | ||
| Target Audience: | Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors, System Administrators | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | At the University of British Columbia, we have developed a number of e-Learning tools (applications) that have focused on three main areas, course administration, system monitoring and the learning environment. The course administration tool, “CTconnect” is a web-based application designed to give faculty and administrator's control of the course management process. The application facilitates course creation, population of class lists, assigning of instructors and markers, the creation of guest accounts and monitors student add/drop activity. The system monitoring tool produces information that is relevant to system performance and usage as well as the history of that usage. The tool monitors: server performance; number of users online (updated every 15 seconds); traffic; number of quizzes in progress; last time courses were reset; actively accessed broken links; quiz information. It also produces an RSS feed, so that we can embed a few of the streams (performance, # users) into a web page where users can get a sense of the traffic. For the learning environment we developed a timeline tool, which is a web based learning object template that allows an instructor to quickly construct an interactive timeline with audio and visual effects. The finished timeline can serve as a re-useable learning object which can be easily distributed and shared over the web. Some of the possible applications of this tool are: Timelines; Navigational System; Scientific Process Design; Visual Gallery Index; and Multimedia File Organizer. Another UBC tool is the “WebCT Discussion Extractor” tool. This tool addresses the problem of re-usability of student interactions in WebCT Discussions, and allows an instructor or a student to export a fully threaded discussion object from WebCT for re-use in course content, analysis/research, e-Portfolios, recordkeeping, etc. In this session attendees will see a real time demonstration of both the usage monitoring tool and the timeline tool. | ||
| Session Leader: | Douglas R. Quinville University of British Columbia | ||
| Co-presenters: | Renbo Huang University of British Columbia Tim Wang University of British Columbia Warren Scott University of British Columbia | ||
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