Mr. Keith will reveal the limitations of lecturing and demonstrate the value of cooperative teaching. He will use his own WebCT distance learning course in Arts Appreciation as an example of how interactive teaching is accomplished.

Using WebCT, the “Content Pages” and the “Mail tool” will demonstrate how the instructor and the student contact each other to begin the learning process. The “Bulletin Board” will illustrate how information is transferred from student to student. The “Quiz” tool will show how open-book quizzes help round-out the student's education.

The audience will see clear examples of how the process works by seeing actual work produced by the students. Hand-outs will be distributed with a list of “reminders” so that audience members can leave the session with information in hand.

The outcome of the session is to demonstrate that cooperative education works in a WebCT distance learning course. The goal of the session is to give teachers the confidence to try active learning on their own.

The scope of the session is to stress that interactive learning is not an “all or nothing” proposition. Teachers can gradually introduce these methods to their class and never go outside their comfort zone. Mr. Keith considers this is the best way to teach and believes that interactive methods are better accomplished through distance education than in the classroom.