Kinshuk (kinshuk@ieee.org)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:52:29 +1200
From: Kinshuk <kinshuk@ieee.org> Subject: [ifets] New formal discussion paper Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:52:29 +1200
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Dear Members
On Monday 14 June, our next formal discussion starts on the topic:
Title: "Development of Standards or Criteria for Effective Online Courses"
Time schedule: 14 - 25 June 99
Moderator: David L. Little, RMI Media Productions, Inc., USA
Summarizer: Bernardo Humberto Banega, Universidad Tecnolsgica Nacional, Argentina
(Pre-discussion paper below)
The summary of the discussion results will appear in the forum
journal 'Educational Technology & Society (ISSN 1436-4522).
Regards.
Kinshuk.
Forum co-ordinator
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Over the past few decades there has been a continual drum of concern by
instructional designers, psychologists, researchers and informed educators
concerning the design, presentation and evaluation of instructional resources
in all their various formats. The innovations brought about by Internet technologies
has once again amplified concerns regarding the viability of online course content,
presentation and evaluation. While architecture of delivery has been brought to the
"off the shelf" level by a number of software companies, many questions remain
about developing criteria and standards for the content placed into such vehicles
for Internet delivery.
The rush of higher education institutions to place courses on the Internet for distance
education students raises some very interesting questions concerning their quality
and value. The initial output of courses in the primitive stages of online delivery
were anchored in text based delivery and were, for the most part, lecture notes. The
rapid sophistication brought about by html programming, advanced browsers and
template authorware have permitted great strides in resource integration. Yet, for
all of this technological wonderment, few educational leaders have suggested that
some sort of criteria or standards be recommended for the development, production
and evaluation of online course materials.
In this discussion forum, participants will be invited to comment on the development
of criteria or standards for online courses in today's educational setting. The
discussions are not limited to higher education. Life long learning and information
literacy dictate that all levels of instruction be included.
Some possible topics for this discussion are proposed but not limited to the following:
- instructional design criteria
- multimedia utilization
- copyright issues
- authorship
- suggested standards for template authorware (Courseware)
- criteria for meeting student needs
- self-pacing
- feedback
- student control over learning outcomes
- communications
- peer tutoring
- evaluation - revision - peer and students input
- mastery of content
- test construction and validation
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