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Do you want to put your course online? For faculty who wants to put their course online, the most frequently asked question is "How Do I Get Started?" or "Where Do I Begin?" WebStudy Reference Guide For a quick reference for WebStudy tools, commands and other  functionalities, click on WebStudy Helpsheets for faculty. All online courses at Community College of Philadelphia adheres to Approved Standards for Distance Education Courses Checklist to Evaluate DE Courses For information on preparing online courses for distance education contact Lilia Juele, Director of Distance Education.   Academic Computing Workshops Sign up for faculty workshops:   FTP (File Transfer Protocol) HTML (HyperText Markup Language) Creating and managing a website.  Apply for faculty web space.

Faculty Training Schedule Announcements! "Basic Online Course Authoring Using WebStudy Course Management System" Level I Timeframe: Five Sessions 1 ½ hours per session Schedule and Venue: March 30, April 4, 6, 11, and 13  @ 2:00 PM, Room B226   Who should attend?  • Instructors who have been approved by their chairpersons to convert an onsite course as well as teach it for online offering; • Instructor who is committed to develop and teach a course for online offering; • Instructors with good keyboarding skills and proficient in using MSWord software for word processing. Other Requirements: • Instructors should have a completed and chairperson approved course syllabus and 15-week course schedule topics; • Instructors should prepare an instructor's website.  Please contact Don Friel from Academic Computing for assistance.  Please email ljuele@ccp.edu for reservations.

Articles of Interest Building the Academic Ecosystems:  Implications of E-Learning In higher education worldwide, technology changes everything from instruction to the role of the university. That 21st century evolution is outlined in a paper "Building the Academic Ecosystem: Implications of E-Learning" just published by WCET on its website at http://www.wcet.info/resources/ publications/ Dave Berg has shared this article on objectivist and constructionist approached to instructional design with special reference to online learning. Combining Two Contrasting Philosophies to Instructional Design Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) for Online Instruction by Wendy Flint, College of the Desert Innovation Abstracts: Learner Control: The Upside and Downside of Online Learning.