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TOL: Streamlining Online Support for UCF’s Faculty

TOL: Streamlining Online Support for UCF’s Faculty. MERLOT International Conference 2003. Presenters. Sue Bauer. Bill Phillips. Note!. This is an open floor session and we promote open dialog during this session. Please share!. Agenda.

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TOL: Streamlining Online Support for UCF’s Faculty

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  1. TOL: Streamlining Online Support for UCF’s Faculty MERLOT International Conference 2003

  2. Presenters Sue Bauer Bill Phillips

  3. Note! This is an open floor session and we promote open dialog during this session. Please share!

  4. Agenda • Explain need for institutional online support (LOL and TOL) • Demonstrate the UCF model for faculty • Teaching Online (TOL) • If time…Learning Online (LOL) • Collaborate with attendees and gain feedback on making the sites more interactive and successful

  5. History of online learning at UCF • 1996 • First online course • Distance Education Committee • Goals • Improved quality of learning • Increased access • Prototype • Systematic • Scalable • Sustainable • Evaluation

  6. Need for institutional support • Large student population of over 40,000 • Over 600 active WebCT accounts in Spring, 2003 • UCF currently uses over 2400 WebCT accounts • 24,700 students (or 65%) use WebCT in online courses • Over 1 million ‘hits’ per day on the server housing WebCT

  7. UCF Online Initiative The three primary support structures that have proven to bolster and enhance the UCF online initiative: • Institutional support • Faculty support • Learner support

  8. Learning Online (LOL) Student Support Where It All Began • Student Orientation • First LOL website • Pegasus Disc • Tutorials • Software/plug-ins • Campus information • Connection to campus network

  9. Learning Online (LOL) • Learning Online web site • Compliment the Pegasus Disc • Focus on three different areas • Students curious about online learning • Students registered for online learning • Student resources for online learning

  10. Teaching Online (TOL)

  11. Teaching Online (TOL) History of old support and reasons for TOL • Too many websites…too many servers • No starting point. • Faculty wanting to teach online did not know where to begin. • Confused faculty. • No central location for ALL teaching online support services.

  12. Teaching Online (TOL) Stages and Process for developing TOL • IDs brainstorm faculty needs at biweekly team meeting • IDs (Instructional Designers) discuss confusion expressed by faculty when trying to locate all the online support services • IDs decide to create web site to support faculty teaching online and select project manager from ID team (Bill Phillips)

  13. Teaching Online (TOL) • Develop Website • Meetings, meetings, meetings • Work with teams / individuals involved • Instructional Design team – content • Digital Media team – graphics • Techrangers– coding support • Video Convergence team – video testimonials • New Media team – interactive multimedia orientation

  14. Teaching Online (TOL) Stages and Process for developing TOL • Collect information on current support services • Design site map for organization of collected resources • Assign sections of site design to ID Team • Develop and post materials

  15. Teaching Online (TOL) Stages and Process for developing TOL • Evaluation/Feedback of site by ID team and UCF faculty • Present at MERLOT and WebCT User Conference • Feedback and Evaluation from attendees • Modifications, Revisions and upkeep of site

  16. Teaching Online (TOL) • Where Do We Go From Here? • Maintain • Revise • Evaluate • Convert to primarily online

  17. Teaching Online (TOL) http://teach.ucf.edu (See site map handout)

  18. Successful Ideas and Areas Any questions, comments? Thank you for attending! Contact Info: Sue Bauer 407-823-4117 sbauer@mail.ucf.edu

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