Computer-based Distance Learning Modalities
PART I: Asynchronous: Internet Based
The Web IS being used to deliver instruction. Its use WILL expand. The number of commercial tools which support this application ARE increasing (as well as the number of commercial firms, who, for a cut, will help faculty develop and offer such courses). Aside from branching (hyperlinks implementing the historic programmed learning process) the Web offers
My purpose is to explore where we are in terms of the technology of Web Based Instruction. There is a growing collection of research on the effectiveness of this kind of instruction and even more how-to advice. My concern is for the tools that teachers and students will employ as they seek to interact asynchronously.
Gradations
http://www.syllabus.com/sep98_magfea2.html Syllabus review of the tools by category.
http://www.faytech.cc.nc.us/infodesk/vcampus/wbi_tkit.html downloadable templates
hosted templates: publisher websites:
McGraw-Hill , Course Technologyhttp://synapse.kent.edu/adms44095.f97/index.html example of an instructor generated course web site.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~llsoe/cis421/cis421.htm Another example of a faculty-produced course web page from CalPoly-Pomona.
COMP 100 Course a second example from Cal State Northridge
http://204.196.50.60 example of what you can do with MS Word
http://www.ctt.bc.ca/landonline/choices.html commercial packages compared
http://www.utexas.edu/cc/cit/tools/index.html reviews made at the University of Texas
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~kfrizler/webmgmt.html grant-funded evaluation at the City College of San Francisco
Blackboard - Bringing Education Online result of merger
http://webclass.eou.edu/ authoring system developed at Eastern Oregon
http://www.wcb.vcu.edu/wcb/schools/HAS/eng/mkeller/14/index.html VCU's Web Course in a Box GUI