Creating Distance Learning Courses
Lesson Four
Using Technology For Collaboration and Feedback
Additional Resources
- Brescia, William, Heike Schaumburg, and Thomas Duffy. Collaboration over the Web: Strategies and Goals, in Using Technology to Enhance Learning: How Using Technology Changes What Faculty Do (1998). Available: http://www.ihets.org/learntech/distance_ed/fdpapers/1998/11.html
- Cummings, Jack. Promoting Student Interaction in the Virtual College Classroom, in Using Technology to Enhance Learning: How Using Technology Changes What Faculty Do (1998). Available: http://www.ihets.org/learntech/distance_ed/fdpapers/1998/52.html
- Forinash, Kyle, William Rumsey, and Raymond Wisman. Interactive and Collaborative Uses of the Web, in Using Technology to Enhance Learning: How Using Technology Changes What Faculty Do (1998). Available: http://www.ihets.org/learntech/distance_ed/fdpapers/1998/46.html
- Funaro, Gina Marie. Pedagogical Roles and Implementation Guidelines for Online Communication, ALN Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1999). Available: http://www.aln.org/alnweb/magazine/Vol3_issue2/funaro.htm
Catalyst
The award-winnning Catalyst Web site is an integrated collection of resources, training, tools, templates, and support to help educators make effective use of technology in teaching. Catalyst brings you tools, resources, and support to help you teach with new technologies.
Learn more about what Catalyst offers and who created it from the Catalyst about page. Take about ten minutes to browse through the six categories of support materials and services to familiarize yourself with what is available to you.
Question
to Consider: How might any of the tools or services outlined
benefit your instructional work?
Catalyst Web Tools
Catalyst
offers a suite of ten web-based tools that can be used to promote student
collaboration and feedback, including:
Peer Review
This flexible, Web-based tool opens doors to student cooperation and collaborative
learning. The Peer Review tool provides a common space
for students to consider and comment on a variety of course materials.
By exchanging and building upon each other's ideas, students are encouraged
to work and learn together. Anything that can be viewed on the Web is
fair game for the Peer Review tool, including sound and
video files. Use Peer Review to host group projects,
from music compositions to research studies.
Take a few moments to review the capabilities of this engaging collaborative tool, Peer Review. Think about how might you use this tool to enhance your courses.
VirtualCase
VirtualCase is a set of Web applications integrated to
facilitate online problem-based learning. Using a shared message board,
notepad, image viewer and editor, and a file sharing mechanism, groups
of participants can collaborate in an event-driven environment to find
solutions to complex problems posed by the VirtualCase owner.
Take a few moments to review the capabilities of this exciting tool, VirtualCase.
Think about how might you use this tool to enhance your courses.
QuickPoll
Use QuickPoll to administer a single question survey.
Results are displayed numerically and graphically. QuickPoll gathers and
tabulates data from a large number of respondents - Polling 50 people
or 500 is easy; just point your participants to your QuickPoll
site. QuickPoll automatically tabulates the votes. For
example, cast your vote in our favorite snack
poll.
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on to Assignment 4
