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Virtual learning for Management education

Virtual learning for Management education. Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy jeyak7@gmail.com jeyv@utdallas.edu. Agenda. Who am I? Virtual learning: what? why? how? Why did it become popular? How is it done? Technical Architecture Future of online education.

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Virtual learning for Management education

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  1. Virtual learning for Management education Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy jeyak7@gmail.com jeyv@utdallas.edu

  2. Agenda • Who am I? • Virtual learning: what? why? how? • Why did it become popular? • How is it done? • Technical Architecture • Future of online education

  3. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal • Dad was a school teacher • B.E. (ECE) in CEG Guindy, Anna University – 1986-90 • UNIX System Software Engineer, HCL Limited, Chennai, 1990-91 • MS Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), 1991-94

  4. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal … • Telecom Software Engineer, Northern Telecom, Dallas, 1994-97 • Ph.D. Computer Science (part-time), University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), 1994-99 • Technical Lead, Samsung Telecom, 1997-2010 • Got married in 1998 • Adjunct Faculty, UTD CS department, 1999-2002 • Online Adjunct Faculty in several online universities from 2000

  5. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Academia, Industry & Personal … • Adjunct Faculty, Southern Methodist University, 2010 • Sr. Lecturer (full-time), UTD Computer Science, 2010-present • 2 daughters: Nila (8) and Chinmayee (4) • Passionate about teaching – happy to share ideas to improve teaching quality in colleges • Challenging teaching environment in US

  6. Dr. V. Jeyakesavan: Summary • 18 years experience as Software Engineer • 12 years of teaching experience (mostly online)

  7. Virtual learning • Other terms: Online courses, web-based courses • Education through Internet • Anywhere, any time, any device connected to internet • Asynchronous learning • Fixed # of weeks • All the work is graded & final grade is assigned • Student evaluation of faculty • Degree certificate

  8. Snippets from history • First online course ~20 years ago, likely by for-profit university • First online degree program? • MBA. Why?

  9. Snippets from history … • How effective is it? Does it help to get a job? • Online colleges got accreditation • Turning point (my opinion): Traditional colleges started online degree programs • Possibly “better than traditional classroom”? • Did the student actually do the coursework? • How a traditional university handled it.

  10. Typical online course • accessible only to students enrolled in that course within university OLS (Online Learning System). • has an assignment due every week or every 2 weeks once • Participation in Weekly discussion questions (DQs) is mandatory. • Courses run for only 5-8 weeks. • Has 10 to 15 students • Has students from multiple time-zones, sometimes from other countries too.

  11. Grading scale for typical on-ground course • Class Participation: up to 5% • Quizzes/Attendance: 10% • Assignments/Projects: 40% • Exams/Research paper: 50%

  12. Typical Grading Scale for virtual course • DQs/participation: 25% • Quizzes: 10% • Assignments: 30% • Proposal/Paper: 25% • Team assignments: 10%

  13. Weekly DQs (Discussion Questions) • Goal: Come up with most reasonable answers through discussion • Set difficulty of DQs at 110% • Focus is on discussions, NOT on perfect initial answers. Wrong answers are perfect discussion starters!  • Faculty should facilitate & shape the discussion little bit, but should NOT kill it. • Goal: each post should add value to the course, requirement to count towards participation.

  14. Team assignments • Can it work online? • Can it be better than on-ground? • Potential for higher level of contribution from each student • More details in separate presentation.

  15. Compare with • Self-paced learning • distance learning

  16. Future of virtual learning… • Continuous improvement in action … • Utilize relevant web resources in courses • Develop multimedia lectures to explain tough concepts • Increase academic rigor – test application of concepts using weekly quizzes • Improved communication tools • Augmenting traditional classrooms

  17. Technical architecture Online University Internet Security gateway OLS server

  18. Online Learning System (OLS) • Lots of software applications out there. • Popular ones: Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle, … • In addition to courses, OLS provides network space accessible to faculty, courses, … • Tons of functionality to run the course efficiently

  19. Advertisement:University of Texas at Dallas • Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science • Computer Science: ~500 MS students and ~150 PhD students • Surrounded by 100s of companies in Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex • Students can get internships right after 2 semesters and continue studies in parallel • We have well-known management dept too. • Flyers available – see me after the lecture

  20. Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex

  21. Thanks for listening! Dr. Jeyakesavan Veerasamy jeyak7@gmail.com jeyv@utdallas.edu

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