"Steering the Bandwagon: Utilizing New Media for Course Development and Support" provided its conferees with various forums for
learning from and interacting with one another:
Presentations
Digital Stones and Bones of Contention: Virtual Problem Solving in the Archaeology Classroom
Jeanne M. Sept
Anthropology Department
Indiana University
Computers can help solve the pedagogical challenge of engaging archaeology students in problem solving. Prof. Sept's CD-ROM gives students the opportunity to interpret for themselves real data from a famous site at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. In collaboration with Martin Siegel at Indiana University and sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is also developing a Digital Learning Environment for use on the World Wide Web which will allow students to do collaborative archaeological research. Prof. Sept spoke by invitation as the writer of the top-rated submission in the IPSE's 1998 collection of faculty papers.
Widening the Educational Highway: New Program Implementation
Bob DiBella and Rebecca Miller
Continuing Education and Instructional Services
Indiana State University
This session addressed several internal coordination issues confronting Indiana State University. The presenters worked with University offices to implement a baccalaureate degree completion initiative known as DegreeLink. The discussion first focused on an introduction to the DegreeLink program and the implementation strategy utilized by Indiana State University. Then the presenters identified and discussed various administrative and delivery concerns such as the admissions and registration process, as well as student services and faculty support issues.
Application of Real-time Streaming Audio and Video to Web-based Courses
Thomas I. M. Ho, Computer Technology, and Brian Ho, WebLab
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Real-time streaming audio and video offer a powerful means to deliver instructional content via the World Wide Web. Professor Ho (at IUPUI) and Brian Ho (at ISU) interacted via RealVideo to describe their experiences RealAudio and RealVideo in instructional applications. They also discussed their future plans, including permanently equipping a classroom to originate live broadcast and archive content and the synchronous delivery of archived content.
Performance vs. Display: What Classroom Enhancements the Copyright Law Allows in Distance Learning
Fritz Dolak
University Libraries, Ball State University
The Copyright Law makes distinctions between performances and displays of materials in the distance education classroom. Certain types of performances may be allowed while others may not. In this session, Fritz Dolak, who chairs the IPSE Copyright Committee, reviewed the "Do's and Don'ts" of performances and displays.
Developing a Fully On-line Course: Lessons Learned
Carmen Simich-Dudgeon
Language Education Department, School of Education, Indiana University
From the point of view of the instructor rather than a technical expert, this session described the development of a Web-based international graduate course, Teaching Languages for Specific Purposes. Prof. Simich-Dudgeon considered both instructional and technical issues related to the attributes of instructionally focused Web-based design and shared her experiences in the management of communication, as well as lessons learned from the experience.
ONcourse-Web-based Software Package
Ali Jafari, Advanced Information Technology Laboratory, and Amy Conrad Warner. Community Learning Network
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Developed and implemented at IUPUI, ONcourse is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, Web-based teaching and learning environment that provides faculty the opportunity to create, edit, and present a Web-based course. The presenters showed how ONcourse provides the instructor with digital library links, audio and video links and playback, live and asynchronous collaboration, and automated test grading.
Description and Evaluation of a CD-ROM and Videotape-based Delivery of a Graduate Curriculum Class
Jerry Summers and Lawrence Reck
Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Media Technology
Indiana State University
The presenters created a graduate curriculum class via CD-ROM. The course, offered exclusively off-campus, contained 16 weekly assignments. Responses to the assignments were made via email to the professor or to other members of the class. Supplementary videotapes were also included in the instructional kit. The CD-ROM includes interactive video, audio, written materials, problem-solving scenarios, and basic instructional content.
Shakespeare On-line: Collaborative Teaching and Learning in a Web Environment
Helen J. Schwartz and Brian C. McDonald
English Department
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Two IUPUI instructors reported on the course utilities (posting syllabi, bulletin board, and grade reports) and multi-media content materials available on the Web for a 300-level Shakespeare course, including results from the first semester in Spring 1998 and revisions and initial results for Fall 1998. Revisions focused on building community and teacher guidance through assignments designed especially for Web capabilities.
Annotate: An On-line Program for Student Peer Review
Ruth Eberle
Cognitive Science and Computer Science
Indiana University
Annotate is an on-line annotation program created in and for the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University. The program, which enables students and instructors to read and comment on student papers via the World Wide Web, has been used successfully in several courses. The presenter demonstrated Annotate, related some experiences using it in courses, and discussed its potential as a pedagogical tool.
An Internet-delivered Course for High School Teachers of Advanced Placement Chemistry
William R. Robinson
Chemistry and Science Education
Purdue University
The presenter described the design, organization, delivery, and results of a new summer course for high school chemistry teachers. The course was an eight-week summer program using a combination of two methods: a textbook and the Internet. A Web site, email, and list server were used for communication. This project was supported by the IPSE Course Development Grant Program.
Teaching Writing in a Multi-Layered Internet Environment
W. Webster Newbold and Richard A. Rice
English Department
Ball State University
Focusing on teaching approaches rather than technological details, this presentation discussed an on-line teaching environment using both a Web site and a private intranet for distance education writing instruction. Problems and solutions related to on-line pedagogy emerged from the presenters' experience with two Ball State University core composition courses representing different strategies for teaching with networked technology.
Using Alta Vista's Web-based Conferencing to Enhance Learning in the Classroom
Katherine Bohley
School of Business
University of Indianapolis
This presentation addressed the development and evaluation of Alta Vista's Web-based conferencing, in combination with the traditional classroom setting, to enhance learning. The use of Web-based conferencing promotes interaction, problem solving, and open-ended challenges; therefore, cognitive skills can be expanded from the lower skills to the higher skills.
General Sessions
Thoughts on the Access Indiana State Backbone and Higher Education
Stan Jones, Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education
Throughout his professional career, which has included sixteen years in the Indiana State Legislature and more than five years as a top aide to Governor Evan Bayh, Stan Jones has helped push important educational policy issues to the front of the Indiana political agenda. In his current role as Commissioner for Higher Education, Jones leads the state's primary higher education agency, planning and coordinating Indiana's state-supported system of postsecondary education. He also chairs the state's Intelenet Commission, charged with network infrastructure development for Indiana. Wearing both these "hats," he described the current initiative to develop a next-generation network for Indiana's public institutions.
The Abacus and the Pentium: Marketing and the New Media Market
Ken Foster, Director of Marketing for Academic Affairs
University of Utah
Understanding the evolving media market may make some people feel they're using an abacus in the presence of a Pentium II 450. In reality, most marketing axioms have not changed, but the tactics have changed dramatically. Sifting current data through proven axioms can help develop strategies for marketing in the new media market. Utilizing video marketing examples from the speaker's home institution, this presentation explored the new tactics, from program development to promotion to help conferees decide when the abacus is still the best alternative.
Demonstrations
Multi-interactivity in Distance Education for the Digital Era
Tosh Yamamoto, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, and Sharon Guan, Media Technology and Resources, Indiana State University
Developing Courses On-line Does NOT Have to Be Exhausting-CourseInfo is the Simplex Solution
Katherine Bohley, School of Business, University of Indianapolis
"Investigating Olduvai"
In a follow-up to her breakout session, Jeanne Sept of Indiana University demonstrated a CD-ROM that gives students the opportunity to interpret real data from a famous site at Olduvai Gorge,
Tanzania.
Workshops
Netscape Composer: A Hands-on Workshop
Kathy Butkiewicz
Academic Computing and Networking Services
Indiana State University
Participants picked up the basics for creating Web documents with Netscape Composer, a widely used Web publishing tool developed by Netscape Communications which is available free to students, faculty, and staff of educational institutions.
Blackboard CourseInfo: A Hands-on Workshop
Karen Bonnell, University of Southern Indiana
Those who signed up got an introduction to Blackboard CourseInfo, an asynchronous course management system-software that expands on the basic delivery mechanism of the Web to integrate other course management tasks beyond information presentation such as monitoring, testing, evaluation, and feedback. CourseInfo is now in use at several Indiana institutions.
A Method to Our Madness: Indiana State University's Approach to Course Transformation
Nancy Franklin, Paula Holder, Don Kaufman, and Julie Tipton
Continuing Education/Instructional Services
Indiana State University
This session focused on Indiana State University's Course Transformation Academy, a faculty development program designed for those preparing to teach distance education courses. The director, instructional designers, and staff of Faculty Development and Planning discussed the challenges and rewards encountered in designing and assisting faculty in the development of distance learning courses.
Conducting Instructional Technology Workshops for Faculty
Beth Kiggins
Center for Technology and Learning
University of Indianapolis
This session focused on Instructional Technology Workshops at the University of Indianapolis, a series of five-day workshops conducted to provide faculty with an overview of course development and course augmentation software and hands-on experience. Faculty were given time to develop a project; a showcase took place at the end of the workshop.
Evaluation by Students Enrolled in Nursing Courses Offered via the World Wide Web
Karen L. Cobb
School of Nursing
Indiana University
Indiana University School of Nursing is in the process of developing and offering nursing courses entirely via the World Wide Web. An overall evaluation plan for these courses was developed with input from faculty, administrators, students, and others. From this overall evaluation plan, a student evaluation instrument was developed using the "Flashlight Project" (Erhmann, 1997). This instrument focuses on the technological aspects of courses offered via the Web. Preliminary data have been instrumental in addressing necessary changes.
A Practical Approach to Preparing Faculty for Teaching at a Distance
Philip H. Swain, Office of Distance Learning, and John P. Campbell. Multimedia Instructional Development Center
Purdue University
Preparing faculty at a research university to develop and deliver high quality instruction via technology-based distance learning is a challenge. Time is their scarcest resource; most faculty have no formal training in instructional design; they have no concept of the support functions, copyright issues, and numerous other "bear traps" with which they will have to deal. The presenters described a practical approach to faculty preparation developed at Purdue University.
Faculty Development for Distance Education: Issues of Development and Delivery
Ann Tomey
School of Nursing
Indiana State University
Fifty-six faculty/staff were interviewed to answer the research questions: What do faculty need to know and have to prepare courses for distance education? What have faculty done to adjust to the new challenges so far? What do faculty still need to know and have to continue improving teaching methods? The researcher, who used a funnel-based interview approach to do this qualitative research, reported on her findings.
Competency-based Instruction on the Job in Indiana: Vincennes University's Providing an Accessible College Education (PACE) Program
Pat McLarty
Elkhart Lifetime Learning Center
Byron Bond
Vincennes University
The presenters will describe a developing program aimed at new or returning adult students, incorporating competency-based instruction from the Elkhart Lifetime Learning Center.
Ivy Tech State College's Virtual Library
Susan Mannan
Ivy Tech State College Indianapolis
This new Web resource for Ivy Tech State College students taking distance classes provides an on-line resource center for multiple programs and classes, along with innovative tools for students.
Academic Advising Technology: Helping Students Where They Live
Michael McCauley
Academic Systems
Ball State University
McCauley's presentation described the Automated Course Transfer System (ACTS), Ball State's new university academic advising technology that allows access to course-transfer articulation information interactively via the World Wide Web.
Panels and Discussion Sessions
The Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education: How an Idea Becomes a Challenging Model
Moderated by Ann Holcombe, Learning Services Coordinator
Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication System
A panel of administrative and staff committee members discussed the challenges and innovations of offering higher education courses
statewide as a consortium.
Admission and Registrar Officers: Making Distributed Education Work through the Partnership
A moderated panel discussion for campus officials and staff from Partnership institutions, sharing current practices and issues.
The Stories Instructors Tell
A moderated panel of experienced instructors using different technologies relate what they have learned and how support staff can help
students and faculty.
Financial Aid Officers and Bursars: Making Distributed Education Work through the Partnership
A moderated panel/discussion session for campus officials and staff from Partnership institutions sharing current practices and issues.
By Your Students You'll Be Taught: The Voices of Partnership Students
Students currently pursuing degrees at a distance recounted a variety of experiences they have shared in distance education.
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