Developing and Teaching a Distance Education Class

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Teach [+] Tech [=] Nexus   12/3/2007 Google Earth Stuart Graybill (History) introduced Google Earth in a Fall 2006 flex presentation. He uses it to add "the Wow factor" to his lectures. Yes, it is that and more! Are you interested in being an astronaut or maybe Tinkerbell? You can "fly" anywhere on the planet. This application is a free download from http://earth.google.com/. If you have extra time, checkout Google Mars and Google Moon. - Melissa

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Accessibility	Adding DE to Socrates	Course & Web Page Samples	Online Study, 2005
Instructional Development	Title 5	Tutoring	WASC

• Here are some suggestions to get you started:
• It is recommended that you have already taught the class for at least one semester in the traditional classroom setting and have worked out the bugs in your instructional design before adding a distance education modality.
• SCC offers an Online Institute to help you acquire the necessary technical and pedagogical skills to convert your courses to a Distance Ed mode.
• Consider what activities, presentations, multimedia materials, assignments, have helped students learn, and how you can adapt them to a DE mode.
• Search for ready made support materials for a DE mode that are already available through your textbook publisher. Utilize the features that work with your instructional plan and learning objectives.
• Check with Instructional Development for more ideas on using multimedia resources on the web to enhance class activities.


• Consider how you want to use the Internet:
• To deliver an entire course online
• To enhance your on-campus class with Internet Research assignments
• To provide information via a course website


• Instructional Design Phase
  As you may already know, developing a new class of any kind requires a period where you "think out" how you are going to organize the course components. And since you may be using new technology for the first time there will also be a certain learning curve associated with becoming familiar with how to use the technology tools. This is central to course development, because you have to know what functions you can use and in what manner. Learning to work in an electronic classroom and office is important.
• Can you visualize your course being presented through distance education after reviewing the above links?
• Would you and your students benefit if you created another mode of an existing course?


• Clearing Houses for information about Online classes:
• DET/CHE Web Servers - The Directors of Educational Technology for California Higher Education (DET/CHE) have an invaluable web site for information about web development, distance learning, educational technology, copyright and fair use, and a directory of community colleges, UC and CSU campuses, California associations and government agencies that use educational technology.
• California Virtual Campus - The CVC has a catalog of DE courses available in California.
• World Lecture Hall (WLH) - Also look for classes in your discipline at this web site. The World Lecture Hall contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.


• Copyright, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property Rights

Here are some electronic references that address fair use of copyrighted materials for Distance Education courses.
• The TEACH Act , signed into law in 2002 addresses the new areas of copyright use created by the increase in distance education modes.


• Distance Education Course Curriculum Review