Tasks
Objectives for the Week
- Understand the role of media in educational communication
- Develop online tests and grading in Blackboard
- Understand text-based virtual reality systems and their use in learning
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This week I'd like for you to experiment with the testing function of Blackboard.
- Create a short (5-10 question) multiple-choice test that is automatically graded and entered into the online gradebook
- Include feedback with both correct and incorrect answers
- Experiment with the testing options in Blackboard
- [Links to other online testing services]
Virtual Reality Environments
Currently there are a couple of limits on creating the sorts of virtual worlds they have been talking about:
- Bandwidth - the Internet is still too slow for rich video
- Time - who's going to program a virtual meadow with virtual deer? We just don't have the way to do this with without immense amounts of programming
Still, there are experimental educational virtual realities out there. I'd like you to visit and explore TappedIn, an semi-graphical "world" for educators to meet and communicate. You will be required to join, but it's free.
- [TappedIn URL]
Assignments due April 5
Readings
- Theory and Practice
of Online Learning
- Chapter 11 - Teaching in an Online Learning Context
- Chapter 13 - Supporting Asynchronous Discussions among Online Learners
Activities
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