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Introduction to Web-Based Learning
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Defining Web-Based Instruction

• Instruction via Internet and Intranet only.
• Synonymous with online learning.

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Distance Education

• Instruction that exists when instructors and
  learners are separated by time and/or location.
• Synchronous vs. asynchronous.

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Distributed Learning vs. Distance Education

• Distributed Learning uses a wide range of
  computing and communication technology to provide
  learning opportunities beyond times and place
  constraints of traditional classrooms.
• Can take place on or off campus.
• Distance education and on-line learning are
  subsets of distributed learning.

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Distance Education Delivery Systems

• Correspondence courses.
• Broadcast systems.
• Teleconferencing systems and communication
  networks.
• Computers and digital technologies.
• Local area networks and wide area networks.
• Internet
• Text-based (Gopher) vs. graphical environments
  (browsers, search engines, portals).

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Advantages and Disadvantages of WBI
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Choosing a WBI project

• Can problem be solved appropriately with WBI?
• Identify the purpose of your WBI.
• Choose a content area in which you have expertise
  and that is of interest to you.
• Select a topic for which participants will be
  available.
• Select a topic for which you have the technology
  available to develop and implement.

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Web-Based Learning Environment and Community
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Continuum of Web-based learning communities
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Types of Online Instruction
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For your project

• What is your learning environment and community
  like?
• What kinds of administrative and technology
  infrastructure do you have?
• Where would your WBI be on the learning community
  continuum?
• What type of on-line instruction would you use?

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Current and Emerging Technologies for WBI
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Current and Emerging Technologies for WBI
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Learning Management Systems

• Technology that supports planning, designing,
  developing, implementing, and administering
  online learning experiences.
• Schedules, registers, and tracks learner progress
  and performance.
• Blackboard, WebCT.

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Features of LMS

• Chat rooms.
• Discussion boards.
• Forums.
• Student lists with email addresses.
• Electronic drop boxes.
• Assessment tools (grading, quizzes).

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Stakeholders in WBI

• Administrative stakeholders (managers,
  superintendents, principals, deans).
• Technology stakeholders (webmasters, networking
  specialists, programmers).
• Learning community stakeholders (instructor,
  learner, instructional designer).

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Administrative stakeholders

• Roles and Responisbilities
• Set project priorities.
• Provide approval.
• Fund and allocate resources.
• May or may not have daily interactions with WBI
  designer.
• Challenges
• May lack expertise must rely on others.

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Technology stakeholders

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Assist designers.
• Solve problems.
• May develop Web pages or multimedia products.
• Challenges
• Troubleshoot in timely fashion.
• Upgrade knowledge and skills.
• Be able to communicate.

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Learning Community stakeholders

• Instructor Roles and Responsibilities
• Establish the learning community, set the tone.
• Lead teaching using good teaching practices.
• Be available.
• Instructor Challenges
• Expectation of immediate feedback.
• Volume of learner contacts.
• Keep current with technology.

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Learning Community stakeholders

• Learner Roles and Responsibilities
• Participate!
• Help establish goals and community.
• Self-motivation, good study skills.
• Learner Challenges
• Feelings of isolation.
• Issues involved with becoming a self-regulated
  learner.

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Learning Community stakeholders

• Instructional Designer Roles and Responsibilities
• Project Designer.
• Communicate with other stake-holders.
• Monitor the design and delivery.
• Instructional Designer Challenges
• Balance quality standards and expectations with
  constraints of limited resources.
• Communicating with other stakeholders that have
  unrealistic expectations.