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Strategies for Building Course Web Sites

Strategies for Building Course Web Sites. Edward F. Gehringer Dept. of Computer Science North Carolina State University. Course-Management Systems. Provide templates and tools Templates serve to organize courses in standard ways.

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Strategies for Building Course Web Sites

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  1. Strategies for Building Course Web Sites Edward F. Gehringer Dept. of Computer Science North Carolina State University E. F. Gehringer

  2. Course-Management Systems • Provide templates and tools • Templates serve to organize courses in standard ways. • Tools provide the means to accomplish tasks frequently required for courses • Online gradebook • Online testing • Discussion forums • Classlist management E. F. Gehringer

  3. A WebCT Course Homepage E. F. Gehringer

  4. How Widely Used Are CMSs? • Almost every institution has adopted one. • Institutions report widespread usage. • However, many instructors do not use them. • When instructors do use CMSs, they usually use only a few modules. E. F. Gehringer

  5. Usage of CMSs—1/03 survey E. F. Gehringer

  6. Why not Use a CMS? • Didn’t have time to adapt existing Web pages. • Don’t have enough material in computerized format. • I want my Web site to be public! E. F. Gehringer

  7. Building Resources thru Peer Review • Have each member of the class choose a portion of a large project • E.g., “annotate” lecture notes. • Then peer-review the work and put the best of these resources on the course Web site. E. F. Gehringer

  8. Lecture Notes Page E. F. Gehringer

  9. An Annotated Lecture E. F. Gehringer

  10. Page Referred to by Annotation E. F. Gehringer

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