Category: Online Courses

Faculty Spotlight – Hasan Coskun

Dr. Hasan Coskun, Mathematics Using Adobe Connect to Record Lectures My main objective in distance education classes as far as content delivery is considered has been to closely simulate traditional lecture style while I integrate computer mathematics software into classroom instruction. I make use of mathematics and statistics software such as Mathematica, MATLAB, Geometer’s Sketchpad …

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Faculty Spotlight – Sherri Colby

Dr. Sherri Colby, Curriculum & Instruction Instructor Authored Films and Active Learning For my web enhanced courses, I create films on course material using my own digital photography.  My films integrate the famous “Ken Burns approach” for documentary film making. In his historical documentaries, Ken Burns created interest through zooming, panning, and scanning still images …

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Faculty Spotlight – Rusty Waller

Dr. Rusty Waller, Educational Leadership Using YouTube in Online Courses To facilitate student mastery of the content, the course is divided into 10 modules ranging from introductory material to the chi-squared distribution. In the last month, short lectures (4-10 minutes) for each of the first five modules have been uploaded to YouTube for broader dissemination …

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Faculty Spotlight – Philippe Seminet

Dr. Philippe Seminet, Literature & Languages Experimenting with Audacity and Format Factory I did a podcasting workshop last year on campus and learned how easy it is to use Audacity to do recordings for my eCollege courses. While the software allows you to do all sorts of fancy editing with background music, etc., I have …

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