ELearning: Past the Gold Rush

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E-Learning Past the Gold Rush?

• Southeastern Scholarship Conference on E-Learning

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Gold Rush?

• There is gold in them hills
• Go west and get you a gold pan
• 10 eggs
• Easy finds have played out
• No silver bullet
• Tips from software engineering

how to build a gold mine
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Consider Outsourcing

• Druckers observations
• Low cost options available
• Some subject domains easier than others
• Student pull vs. instructor push
• Creating instructional value added
• Building your own mine

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It is the economy
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It takes a team
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It takes a process
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It takes a vocabulary

• Actors
• Use cases scenarios
• Requirements
• Test plans
• Release plans
• Support plans
• Maintenance plans

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A Demo Showcasing Two Tools

• A brief lecture (walkthrough prepared using
  Captivate from Macromedia) and hands-on
  assignment.
• A follow up web quiz (prepared using ExamView
  from FSCREATIONS, Inc.