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Wandering Web Watchers - Online

Volume 1, Number 3

Archives   2/01, 3/01, 4/01 , 5/01, 6/01, 8/01, 9/01, 10/01,11/01, 12/01

April, 2001

Editor's Corner 

 

In the "Impact?" section below you will find a link to another agreement at the state level ( in this case Indiana) for supplying a "teaching/learning" service to students in Indiana. The March issue of WWW-Online contains a link to an announcement concerning state agreements with Academic Systems for developmental courseware.  Is this a trend?  Who is involved in the process when state governments contract with commercial suppliers of "teaching/learning" services? What are the pros and cons? What will be the unintended consequences?

 

Cheers,

 

Bruce

 

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us

 

 

Faculty View

 

College English Professors Use a Web Site to Help High-School Instructors

 

Internet Studies 1.0: a Discipline Is Born

 

A Course With Participants Around the Globe Looks at Environmental Issues

 

Scholars Urge a Boycott of Journals That Won't Release Articles to Free Archives

 

Student View

* National Survey of Student Engagement

The 2001 survey is available in PDF format.

Creating a Web Site for Instructor Reviews Is a Challenge, 2 Young Texans Find

Pickaprof.com

Faculty Resources  

 

FLAG  (Field Tested Learning Assessment Guide)

 

Book

 

Unspun : Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web

* Seven Principles

 

Seven Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education

 

Implementing the Seven Principles: Technology as Lever  

 

Seven Principles of Effective Teaching: A Practical Lens for Evaluating Online Courses

Distance Learning

* Regional Accrediting Agency Documents on Electronically Offered Degree and Certificate Programs  (March, 2001)

 

Educators Praise Bill to Ease Copyright Restrictions on Online Instruction

Teaching with Technology

PsychExps

Electronic Publishing

Penguin signs up for Texterity's PDF-to-XML conversion

Texterity

Web Page Design

Web Standards Project

Astounding Websites

A List Apart

Digital Web Magazine

e-Learning

British Company Offers Prerecorded Lectures by Big-Name Scholars

Boxmine

Content Sites Test Their Strength  

Trends?

 * At One University, Royalties Entice Professors to Design Web Courses  

Intellectual Property at UNT

Software

Windows XP to replace all others | March 27, 2001

Mt Rainier spec wrapped up | March 27, 2001

Windows Media Player 8 Features Announced

Hardware

Nokia 9210 Communicator

Internet

Rethinking the Internet

In Search of the Net's Next Big Thing

Impact?

*TUTOR.COM ANNOUNCES LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH INDIANA HIGHER EDUCATION TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEM

"Under the terms of the agreement, IHETS will license Tutor.com's proprietary Online Classroom and use it with a customized group of Tutor.com's 30,000 tutors that IHETS selected. IHETS will provide Tutor.com's online tutoring services primarily for its 42 member colleges and universities from the state's new Community College of Indiana to major research institutions such as Indiana and Purdue Universities. Learners gaining access from K-12 schools, public libraries, state government, and the state public broadcasting system will also be able to take advantage of the new service."

tutor.com  (Note the use of Shockwave.)