Presentations from educators representing institutions, accreditation teams, and the international community as a springboard for small group discussions about the issues and challenges of achieving quality.

Telecommunication changes its definition, now requiring interaction of students and direct assessment. Engagement is the issue.

WASC assessments -- be sure that evaluators speak to the people who KNOW about the online program at your institution. Assessment is different in Europe. Accountability is to the public.

Discussion around e-learning vs distance learning, suggesting that the word distance goes away. Courses should be equivalent no matter online or face to face.

European ENQA: www.enqa.eu

Opening Session Keynote:

A Wiki Wiki What?

A lively and energized presentation about the Wikipedia Project. Wikipedia is a freely licensed encyclopedia written by thousands of volunteers in many languages. Most money donated is spent on servers and bandwidth and is collected from small donations world-wide. There are only 5 employees. Wikipedia is the 17th most popular website on the Internet. Quality is improving all the time; languages are growing all the time.

Wikipedia allows free access, freedom to copy, modify, redistribute and either commercially or non-commercially. Wiki software is broadly adopted and contributed to, and highly scaleable (it can be installed on one server).

Wikipedia is best at: strength in neutrality and moderation; and calm measured discussions & debates

Too many controls make a bad society. Wikipedia has gone through three eras: first, era of protection; 2nd, era of semi-protection; and 3, era of flagging.

Web sites:

www.wikipedia.com?

Ruth Rominger, Monterey Institute for Technology and Education

Robert Stephenson, The Harvey Project

Roundtable discussion will focus on the social authoring model in the National Repository of Online Course (NROC) Network. Faculty and staff collaborate to develop high-value online courses for a repository. Courses are available for licensing by other educational institutions.

NROC is a non-profit organization committed to helping meet society's need for access to effective, high-quality educational opportunities.

Breaking into small groups we looked at four issue areas for collaborative course development: Major Concerns; Development Steps; Support Needs; and Essential Ingredients for Success.

www.montereyinstitute.org

HippoCampus.org

opencourse.org/collaboration

Judith Fisher, University of Florida Warrington College of Business

Donna Johnson, University of Florida Warrington College of Business

Paul Traudt, University of Nevada Las Vegas

What is a large course? 200 +

What makes teaching a large class difficult?

• Personal attention (individual)
• Grading
• Managing communications and assignments

Usual large classes are Talk and Test. Can you do more? Yes! Use a getting started module. Team teaching helps. Use peer grading and discussions. Set expectations and standards. Use an e-pack if available. Use TAs.

jefisher@ufl.edu

donna.c.johnson@cba.ufl.edu

Moderator:
Russell Poulin, WCET

Presenters:
Bruce Landon, WCET and Douglas College

Cara Lane, University of Washington

Martha Wicker, University System of Georgia

Visit the EduTools Web site. Check out the Web Cast on December 7th.

Seven products were looked at, and 69 product features.

• look at web site?
• Angel ePortfolio
• ePortfolio.org
• Blackboard ePortfolio (WebCT?)
• OSP2.0/rSmart
• Task Stream
• LiveText

edutools.org

Streaming Video Webcast
Thurs., Dec. 7
www.mnsat.mnscu.edu

James Monaghan, California State University, San Bernardino

Linda Morris, University of Idaho

Richard Fehrenbacher, University of Idaho

CSUSB training for faculty has three development models. Center for Teaching Innovation has help for faculty with learning technologies (not pedagogy). They have no instructional designers. They stress building a community of users to help each other.

• Full Serve: budget through grant projects
• Mini Serve: empowerment model, some help
• Self-Serve: limited support, usually early adopters

University of Idaho suggests helping faculty make online courses better than face-to-face classes. When considering a course re-design for online, improve it. Recommend to make online development a part of tenure-track process. Recommend using Wikis to expand course offerings, transcending current course limitations. Ivanhoe Game mentioned to involve students in writing and critical thinking to create new meanings for traditional literature. Community driven experiences online can create new learning opportunities.

Moderator:
Barry Willis, University of Idaho

Presenters:
Richard Lillie, CSU, San Bernardino

Natalie Lupton, Central Washington University

Mark Sunderman, University of Wyoming

Blend asynchronous methods to achieve a hybrid synchronous results. Use Impatica to embed video announcement into modular units. It is highly recommended that faculty learn to use these new technologies themselves. Use Web Cams. 14 low-cost tools are available. See Web sites.

Podcasting lectures available from course along with PowerPoint presentations.

Screen Watch recording system used in financial emulator lesson using screen grabs and recording voice over. Share with not only online learning class, but face-to-face classes, too.

ADA issues are addressed as they come up.

capturewizpro-pixelmatrics.com

sightspeed.com

www.ograhl.com/en/pdfanotator/

qarbon.com

H&H Publishing

Josh Mitchell

WCET edu tools

What Makes a Successful Online Student

Benchmarking Tool for Distance Learning Leaders

ePortfolios Comparison

www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/tutorials/
pedagogy/StudentProfile.asp

www.IQAT.org.tour

eport06.edutools.info/