Teaching and Learning Using Internet On-line Courses - Return to Main Menu

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Faculty need motivation, quality training in new technologies, access to hardware and software , institutional support structure, and time to learn software and develop materials. A possible list of software may include the usual word processors, spreadsheets, and databases. Software to create and manipulate graphics, photos, video, sound, and computer movies or animations is essential. Finally, a rudimentary knowledge of HTML programming language is helpful, although there are many software programs that automatically convert documents into HTML are available. For more advanced course developers a knowledge of Shockwave, cgi scripts, and JAVA programming are useful.

Start small and develop a system of copying good URL's into a word processor document with titles and comments. Find some good sites that can be used to initiate discussion. Some existing assignments can be converted to web based assignments. Existing word processed documents can be converted to HTML format "easily" - using software that converts it automatically to HTML, such as Adobe Page Mill. Set up a small site to get started.