Archive for December, 2003


e-Learning Centre’s Guide to e-Learning

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About:
This Guide provides an introduction to e-learning: what it is and what it looks like. It comprises short, one-page summaries of e-learning topics, with links to key external resources (articles, examples, etc).
This Guide is a dynamic document; it is updated on a regular basis.
Table of contents as at 23/12/03
e-Learning in the […]

Ohio State Uni - Readiness for a multimedia project

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Readiness Checklist
“Before you embark on your multimedia/web project there are some basic things that must be in place including, existing content, a vision, and resources. Go through the 5 items one-by-one in order to lay a solid foundation for the rest of your project. This step is crucial to your future success […]

Software Tools

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Overview
New software programs make life much easier for developers and facilitators of online learning! Interactive exercises, testing, collaboration, and content development are greatly simplified. What used to take days/weeks can now often be done in much less time - with little or no coding/programming skills needed.
The resources listed on this page are some […]

Interactive Instructional Designer

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This site was developed to assist instructors who are new to using technology in the classroom by creating a reflective document to assist in planning the use of technology in your teaching.
This tool will ask you a series of questions regarding you, your course, and your students. At the end, you will have […]

Blogging to Learn

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By Anne Bartlett-Bragg (UTS)
“Have you considered using blogs within your pedagogical practice? Do you know what a blog is? This excellent article makes a significant contribution to the flexible learning debate. Anne Bartlett-Bragg describes the phenomena of blogging, the process of blogging and how it can be used to enhance learning. The theoretical […]

Teaching educators about free software

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By: Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller
“…One big barrier I foresee in teaching teachers — and school and school district administrators — about free software is their natural reluctance to teach students to use software that isn’t “mainstream….”

MGT 8033 Leading Organisational Change

Course Specification for MGT 8033
1 credit point
SYNOPSIS:
One of the major contemporary issues facing virtually all organisations is the fast-changing and highly complex and dynamic environments they operate in - both externally and internally. There is a constant drive for organisational change - not only to survive but to be able to compete and be successful […]

MGT 8038 Leadership Development

Course Specification for MGT 8038
1 credit point
SYNOPSIS:
We live in a world where the breadth of local, national and international issues confronting our global community is both increasingly complex and diverse; this creates a great need around the world to find new and improved ways of doing business. Leaders and potential leaders need to ensure […]

MGT 8022 Project Management

Course Specification for MGT 8022
1 credit point
SYNOPSIS:
This course combines planning, organisation and control techniques with information technology to develop strong theoretical and practical skills in project management. It addresses the fundamental difference between project and general management. It highlights the importance of project planning and discusses the processes of networking, scheduling and resource allocation. It […]

FET 5502 The Learning Organisation

Course Specification for FET 5502
1 credit point
SYNOPSIS:
This course will provide an introduction to organisational theory and organisational change as a basis from which to explore the concept of the ‘learning organisation’. Learners will analyse the characteristics of their organisations in terms of the ‘disciplines’ of the ‘learning organisation’. Tools to assist organisations in becoming learning […]

FET 5660 Supervised Independent Study

Course Specification for FET 5660
1 credit point
This course is designed as a supervised independent study. This means that students working with a member of the academic staff are able to design a course of study appropriate to their particular learning needs and interests. In this course students may undertake one or two types of academic […]

FET 8661 Masters Project II

Course Specification for FET 8661
2credit points
SYNOPSIS:
Learners will, with guidance from a member of Faculty staff, plan and execute an independent project which is clearly related to their overall program of study. This two-unit project is intended to meet the needs of learners who wish to include a research or evaluation component in their Masters program […]

Open Source Advisory Service

[oss watch] Open Source Advisory Service
OSS Watch provides the UK further and higher education community with neutral and authoritative guidance about free and open source software, and about related open standards. Specifically, it offers:
A web-based clearing-house for up to date information;
conferences and workshops;
focussed assistance for institutions and software projects considering open source;
investigative reports.

ID Project

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This section is not complete but it is started….

Computer-Mediated Communications

Curtin’s IBL Guide Web: Ideas for using email for teaching and learning
“Here are some ideas from the University of NSW for using email in your teaching; some refer to email lists; others are about the more individual uses of email. They tend to share an underlying commitment to using computer-mediated communication (CMC) […]