Communication between students is so important it is often taught as a separate skill. This is done with problem solving feedback, additional explanations and suggestions of additional work. Communication is an important way that teachers and students diagnose and remedy problems. The university student who has problems is able to ask questions of a teacher or of peers. These systems are more concerned with providing student support and are similar to HBE labs.Ĭommunication comprises all ways of communicating (group or one-to-one) between teacher and students, or between student groups. A number of WBE systems can also offer activities specially developed to support learning-by-doing. Assessment, provided in HBE through quizzes, tests and homework, is important in credit-bearing courses and critical in education that diagnoses the state student knowledge and then prescribes ways to move the student to a higher state.
In most WBE systems activities are assessment oriented i.e., their goal is assessment of student progress (it includes self-assessment). In HBE presentation is achieved through lectures, textbooks, and video.Īctivities comprises the learning materials, active and interactive, which involve students in doing something. Presentation comprises all functions related to the delivery of new material. We divide the needs of virtual university courses into four main components: presentation, activities, communication, and administration. For the builder of on-line courses and virtual universities we hope to help shape thinking and provide a good bibliography.
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The goal of this chapter is to provide the reader with a sense of the landscape of systems and features plus some idea of who the players have been up to this time. Systems and teams that produce systems are changing rapidly, but the underlying educational needs are not. This chapter analyzes course delivery systems in the context of distance learning using the World Wide Web (These needs are addressed in traditional, face to face residential, education (we will call this human based education or HBE) by a variety of methods: lectures, textbook, tests and exercises, labs and seminars, office hour contacts with the teachers and teaching assistants (TA), the registrar's office etc. Course Delivery Systems for the Virtual University PETER BRUSILOVSKY AND PHILIP MILLERĤ615 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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