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Tuesday, 13 July 2004: 3:15 PM-4:00 PM | |||
Northern A-3 (Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel) | |||
D-5: From Template to Customization, Taking Control of the Design | |||
| Detailed Description: | How can instructors design a powerful, innovative, and effective WebCT environment that can be integrated in a face-to-face class or stand alone to support a distance course? Through discussion and demonstration, the session presenters will highlight the main stages that allowed them to take International Business, a graduate class taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from an institutional, unimaginative, template-based course to a fully-customized course that truly reflects the instructor’s teaching style and philosophy. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models | ||
| Target Audience: | Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors, E-learning Managers, K-12 Educational Staff | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | How can instructors design a powerful, innovative, and effective WebCT environment that can be integrated in a face-to-face class or stand alone to support a distance course? This presentation answers the question from the perspective of a two-year long project that led a faculty from using an institutional, unimaginative template to designing a fully customized course that truly reflects his teaching style and philosophy, supports the school’s mission statement and the course objectives, and accounts for the wide variety of student learning styles. International Business is a graduate class offered by the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In this third year of being taught using WebCT, the course has seen an incredible evolution in the design of the user interface and in the selection and use of the WebCT tools. Blending discussion and demonstration the session will first propose a brief historical perspective illustrated by three dramatically different designs and supported by sound theoretical research. We will then outline a model that will guide the participants though the three main stages leading to customization: template use, transitional use, and customization. Each stage will be defined, outlined, illustrated and referenced, enabling the participants to leave the session with rational, model, guidance, and resources that will foster their transition from template use to customization. | ||
| Session Leader: | Marie-Pierre Huguet Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||
| Co-Presenter: | Frank Wright Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||
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