Easy Way for Teachers to Conduct Online Courses

1. IWALT2000: Dec. 4-6 International Workshop on Advanced Learning Technology Massey University, Palmerton North, New Zealand Easy Way for Teachers to Conduct Online Courses Prof. Nian-Shing Chen Email: nschen@mail.cc.nsysu.edu.tw Http://www.nschen.idv.tw/ Department of Information Management National Sun Yat-Sen University Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2. NSYSU Cyber University • Currently, 34 credit courses available online • Two certificate programs provided • Electronic Commerce Program • Management Information System Program • Over 1000 students enrolled per semester • Over 10000 people registered as lurkers • Students can waive the courses they taken after they passed the entrance exam to do master study • Up and running for three years

3. Personal Experiences on Cyber University • Developing web-based teaching/learning system for four years • Conducting online courses with credits for three years • My course “Computer Networks and the Internet” normally has about 100 students enrolled every semester • Most of them are working people • Students coming from different part of the country

4. Challenges for Teachers to Conduct online Courses • Reluctant to prepare online multimedia course materials. • Lack of skills • Without strong incentive • No time • Don’t know how to do online instructional design • Not familiar with online teaching/learning environment • Not familiar with IT(Computer and/or Internet literacy)

5. Think about the real situation in traditional classroom teaching • How do you teach in the traditional classroom? • What is the major activity which teachers are doing in the traditional classroom? • Why students sit in your class every week? • Will you write a textbook for your course by yourself? • Do you prepare handouts or slides for your classroom lecture?

6. Easy Way to Conduct Online Courses • Two tools to facilitate teachers to do online teaching: • Wisdom Master and Media Master • Media Master: • Help teachers to do online explanation/commentary, the way is just similar to traditional classroom teaching. • Wisdom Master: • Support teachers to do instructional design and conduct online teaching/learning activities

7. 4 Basic Principles • Now, I want to adopt David Merrill stated in his keynote speech, the 4-basic principles: • Activation, • Demonstration, • Application, • and Integration

8. Demonstration • NSYSU Cyber University • HTML Outline + Electronic White Board • HTML Outline + Beautiful Image Graphics(1) • HTML Outline + Beautiful Image Graphics(2) • Team Teaching for English Learning • http://cu.nsysu.edu.tw • Question and Answer

9. Application • No Matter How You Agree/Disagree with My Ideas/Concepts • You have to practice yourself • The URL is http://cu.nsysu.edu.tw • Please have a trail • Recording DEMO

10. Integration • Feedback from the audience • Q&A •  Continue to improve the system and the way we conduct online courses

11. Conclusions • IT is not going to replace teachers • IT is just a tool to facilitate good teachers to be online 24hrs for delivering excellent commentary for active learners.

12. Thank You for Your Attention!