Monday, November 06, 2006

Wrap-Up Session: Pre-Conference by Deb

Questions:
Pitfalls of student/course/other management integration-issues
What do we look for?
1. Look at what businesses are doing
2. Make a decision on a platform-if staff is trained on one kind, have to factor that in-don’t want to introduce too much additional stuff
3. Go standards base
4. Keep in confidentiality-keep student info inhouse
5. Look at Blackboard-can take our Sasi student info and upload to their management system
6. What is being shared?
7. Do we want more centralized or individualize instruction portals?
How do we feel about video and instructional methodology?
(video on demand, video webcasts, video conferencing) Is there power in integrating this into experience continuum?
Needs to include interaction and collaboration
Provide multi ways of learning
Enhances learning style opportunities
Must consider capabilities of students
Real time feedback is possible and valuable in virtual school
Video not used for lecture review but for illustrations/object lessons/ etc
Putting teacher lectures on line and calling it an online course is NOT what we are talking about!
Colleges are requesting AP classes have hands-on (ie science AP must be “wet lab”) –colleges backing off on this in order to give credit to virtual school courses

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