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Think-In
2007
A Teaching with
Technology Showcase
On November 13th Academic Outreach hosted the third
annual Think-In 2007: A Teaching with Technology Showcase
featuring laptop poster presentations by 65 faculty
members from ECU and area community
colleges. Thank you to all of the presenters
and participants!
This year’s
Think-In highlighted some of the latest technology and
teaching strategies faculty are using to teach in both
face-to-face and online classes. Presentations in
three tracks – Course Development, Teaching
Methodology, and Support/Services – included such
topics as social presence, learning styles,
collaborative learning environments, podcasting and
learner-centered large online teams. The following
departments had poster sessions describing the services
they provide: Academic Outreach, Division of Continuing
Studies, Information Technology and Computing Services,
and Joyner Library.
Congratulations to the grand prize
winners:
-Abbie Brown
- Canon Power Shot Digital Camera
-Donna
Shumate - iPod Shuffle
-Deborah Lewis
- Sony DVD Player
-Martin Guion - iPod
Nano
-Gregory Lapicki - Dell
All-In -One Printer
The complete list of presenters and a web
cast of Think-In 2007 is available at http://www.ecu.edu/academicoutreach/thinkin2007.cfm.
We look
forward to seeing you at Think-In 2008!
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Saba Customer
Excellence Awards
During the recent user conference
held in
San Francisco
,
Saba/Centra presented the 2007 Saba/Centra Customer
Excellence Awards, recognizing superior achievement in
strategic deployments.
East
Carolina
University
was awarded by receiving the
“Best Academic Institution Deployment.” This is a
great achievement and indicative of the use of Centra by
ECU faculty and students. We couldn’t have done
this without your hard work and continued use of
Centra. You put us at #1 and deserve to share
heartily in the accolades.
“Year
over year we are pleased to see how our customers have
expanded their use of the Saba platform and the positive
impact these implementations are having on their
organizations,” added Yazdani. “We are pleased to
recognize our Customer Excellence Award winners who are
visionaries in the industry and continue to set new
standards for implementing a people
management strategy.” http://www.saba.com/news_events/press_releases/2007/news_071108.htm
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CMS
Platform Project~
Thank You to
Participating Faculty
At
Academic Outreach, one of our major commitments is to
provide a feature rich and user-friendly course
management system (CMS) to support teaching and learning
for both on-campus and distance education students at
ECU. The objective of this CMS Platform project is to
conduct a formal analysis of three different CMS
platforms: Blackboard, Moodle, and
Sakai
. This Fall faculty participating in
the study taught a class using either Blackboard
7.2, Moodle or
Sakai
and by
the completion of the study they will have taught with
all three systems. Thank you to all of the
faculty that have taken the time to learn these new systems
and for sharing your feedback. The project
will continue through the Spring 2008 semester. We will
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Academic Outreach
Presented at EDUCAUSE 2007 Improving
Distributed Education Through
Research~
Sharon
Collins, Matt Long, Ginny Sconiers and Kim Wilson of
Academic Outreach presented Improving Distributed
Education through Research: Three Studies of E-Pedagogy
at the annual EDUCAUSE conference this year. The
presentation included discussion about three Academic
Outreach studies: social presence in distance
learning, threaded discussion, and student technology
usage.
You
can access the abstract and presentation at the
following link:
http://connect.educause.edu/library/abstract/ImprovingDistributed/45489
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The
Technology Advancement Center
Faculty Needed for Innovative Project...
The
Technology Advancement Center is
recruiting a limited number of faculty enthusiastic
about developing one smart learning module (SLM),
incorporating Artificial Intelligence in one of their
Spring semester DE or hybrid classes. The SLM will
provide a student assessment determining what unique
content needs to be known and generate a prescription
for online learning. The Technology Advancement Center will
provide software, training and technical assistance.
If you are
interested, please contact: J. Barry
DuVall duvallj@ecu.edu or
visit our website www.tac.ecu.edu. |
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December 2007
In
This Issue
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1. Think-In
2007
2. Saba
Excellence Awards
3. CMS Platform
Project
4. AO Presents at
EDUCAUSE
5. TAC ~ Smart Learning
Module
6. Out
and About
7. Moodle
8. Sakai
9. DE Orientation
Website
10. Academic
Integrity~DE Courses
11. Blackboard
Updates
12.
D-ECU
News
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Out &
About
Academic Outreach will host
its second Out and About Sessions scheduled Jan
28th – Feb
8th. What is Out and About? AO staff will
schedule appointments and visit your
office for one-on-one
personalized training. We have
found this is the best way for you
to learn about our new tools and ask
any questions you
might have. More
information about this will
be sent out at the beginning of the
Spring 2008 semester.
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Moodle
@ECU
Join the many Moodle users and become a
member of an exciting online learning community.
Moodle is an open source course management
system designed using sound pedagogical
principles, to help educators create effective
online learning communities and is available for
you to use. Discover a new way to
share and teach with your students and revamp
your current course. You do not have to be part
of our Course Management System study
to teach a class on Moodle. If you would
like to teach with Moodle in the Spring
2008 semester, please contact Sharon
Collins at collinss@ecu.edu. We
have a staff that will assist you in moving your
content and teaching you how to use
Moodle.
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Sakai
Sakai is an open source course management
system that supports
teaching and learning, group
collaboration, and research collaboration.
You do not have to be part of our Course
Management System study to teach a class in
Sakai
. If you would
like more information or if you would like
to teach a class in
Sakai
, please contact Ginny
Sconiers at sconiersg@ecu.edu.
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Distance Education Orientation
Website
The DE Orientation will
take you step-by-step through the process of how
to get started taking classes online. As
you work through the orientation, you will
discover answers to questions you may have such
as: What is distance
education? Who is my advisor, and how
do I contact him/her? How do I access course
material? How do I get an email account and DE
student card?
http://author.ecu.edu/cs-acad/DE
Orientation/index.cfm
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