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Key Elements for an Effective Online Learning Program: Lessons Learned
Monday, 9:50 - 11:20 a.m.
KUC Theatre

This presentation will focus on and introduce key elements for an effective online learning program.  These key elements can be seen as an ideal type and used to assess online learning programs as well as guidelines when designing online learning programs.  This session is divided into seven topics: comparison between traditional in class learning and online learning, learner and teacher/facilitator characteristics, curriculum development and assessment, technologies or facilitative tools, service, assessment, and an overview of challenges.
Kenneth E. Melichar
Piedmont College

 

Web-Based Course Software for an Online Introductory Psychology Course
Monday, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
KUC 313

Discussion on the design and implementation of a completely online introductory Psychology course and especially the central role of a variety of Web-based software programs used in the course will be the main focus of this session.  The key software package discussed in this presentation will be O'Reilly's Webboard, a Web-based online discussion program that was used for interactive assignments; to provide a forum for regular class meetings using a chat function; and as a common focus of communication for instructor and students.
Norman E. Kinney
Southeast Missouri State University

 

Education at a Distance Using Compressed Video: Lessons Learned
Monday, 11:30 a.m. - Noon
KUC Theatre

The requirements for planning and delivering courses over an interactive distance education network are not completely the same as in a traditional instructional setting.  Therefore, the information provided in this session will look at those different requirements for instruction and learning as they impact the planning and teaching of interactive distance education courses.  This presentation is based on an analysis of various courses that have been offered by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College through an interactive distance education network.  Courses that have been taught on the network include cost accounting, income tax accounting, principles of business finance, business and global markets, and entrepreneurial problem solving.
Rebecca Rutz, Alex Carter, Amy Chataginer, and Paul Morgan
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County

 

Web Camp: A Faculty Development Opportunity
Monday, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.
KUC Theatre

Faculty are now obliged to understand technology and to convey that knowledge to their students, whether in the classroom or in Web-enhanced courses.  This kind of obligation demonstrates the need for educational opportunities to help faculty integrate technology into the curriculum.  Through this session, participants will learn how Winona State University responded by initiating "Web Camp."  The camp is an eight-day retreat in which campers are introduced to and learn software applications that enable them to create Web sites they can use to enhance their courses.  Campers are also given the opportunity to explore curricular enhancements through Web site creation, learn organization and display of information, consider new and different teaching strategies, and try out various means of electronic communication.
Connie L. Braun
Winona State University

 

Streaming PowerPoint and Images on the Internet: Putting the Internet to Work for You
Monday, 2:35 - 3:35 p.m.
KUC 313

The World Wide Web offers new tools for faculty to help them enhance their classroom instruction.  Web pages and threaded discussion forums are the most common tools used by faculty, but there is more.  This presentation will demonstrate how streaming multimedia can bring new power to faculty in their efforts to utilize the Web.  The session will showcase how PowerPoint presentations may be narrated and then streamed over the Internet using RealPresenter software.  Another software program, RealSlideShow, which enables faculty to narrate photo slide shows and create a powerful streamed multimedia presentation, will also be demonstrated.
Rich Ranker and Russ Dively
East Tennessee State University

 

Taking Instruction Online (?)
Monday, 2:35 - 4:05 p.m.
KUC Theatre

You've been asked, told, or "hogtied" into migrate a course to the online environment.  So what do you do now?  This session will provide a possible checklist of suggestions, hints, and competencies to take your course from ideas to reality.  The presenters will share their experience, research, and knowledge with participants.  Topics will include adapting a syllabus, pedagogical concerns, integrating group work and discussion threads, developing and writing Web content, multimedia, and assessment and evaluation.
Rosemary Carlson and Donna R. Everett
Morehead State University

 

Displaying Mathematical Expressions on the World Wide Web
Monday, 3:45 - 4:45 p.m.
KUC 313

Authoring mathematical expressions for viewing in standard World Wide Web browsers is not a simple task.  This presentation will focus on the tools and techniques used to author mathematical expressions for display in an online World Wide Web-based testing engine under the development at Virginia Tech.  An overview of available technologies will be given as well as a rationale for the choice of the technology used at Virginia Tech.
Charles B. Hodges
Virginia Tech

 

Innovation in Using Web-Enhancement to Teach Health Care Finance
Monday, 4:15 - 4:45 p.m.
KUC Theatre

Health Care Finance has been a difficult discipline for students to master.  Over a period of time, a successful mixture of lecture, learning sessions, and the use of a Web page have been employed. The Web page in this presentation employs asynchronous forums, synchronous chat rooms, as well as class and lecture presentation materials.  In this presentation, participants will learn how all three methods were employed to find the best understanding.
Thomas S. Mendenhall and Tracy Viamontes
University of Central Florida

Middle Tennessee State University's Experience in Evaluating Online Course Management Systems (Panel Discussion)
Tuesday, 9:50 - 10:50 p.m.
KUC 324

Many universities are exploring the Web-based world of online course delivery.  This session will detail Middle Tennessee State University's experience in researching, evaluating and adopting an online course delivery system for use on the MTSU campus.  Following the establishment of resource and faculty committees, MTSU is progressing through an evaluation process where sample courses were designed, administered, taken and evaluated to determine the most useful online course management product to adopt and support.
Barbara Draude, Lucinda Lea, Carole Carroll, Maria Clayton, Janet Colson, Dorothy Valcarcel Craig, Jackie Gilbert, Duane Graddy, Carolyn Hopper, Liz Johnson, Virginia Vesper, and Karen Ward
Middle Tennessee State University

Interactive Television Pointers from Three First Time Presenters (Panel Discussion)
Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. - Noon
KUC 324

This panel discussion will review the experiences of how three first-time presenters from the Harrison College of Business at Southeast State University handled ITV.  Courses the professors taught were Management and Organization, Financial Management, and Principles of Marketing.  Addressed will not only be the benefits, but the drawbacks and limitations of the experience.  Each professor will also offer tips for attendees of the session.
James A. Buckenmyer, David A. Kunz, and Jack L. Sterrett
Southeast Missouri State University

 

Reaching for the Stars - Online Learning for Astronomy
Tuesday, 11:30 - Noon
KUC 313

This presentation will focus on an online Astronomy class that has been designed to allow the effective combination of traditional experiments with online learning.  The class began as an online hybrid and evolved into a true online course with online lectures, notes, chat sessions, lab experiments, and testing.  The development, implementation, evaluation, and redesign of the course will be presented, as well as, a discussion on the qualities that allow for successful course completion by students.
Van Stringfellow
Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College - Jackson County