| Introduction | System | Environment | Learners | Content | Resources | Teachers | Techniques | References |
A session made by Morten Flate Paulsen for the Teaching Over The Web Conference
Organized by the University System of Georgia, May 11-15 1998
To date, relatively little pre-produced course material is developed
for online courses. Even though more and more content is developed
for world wide web, much of the content material is adapted from
existing text books, lectures or correspondence courses. More
work must be done in the future to produce tailor-made material
for online courses. Information technology allows the course content
to be distributed and presented via CMC. Distribution via world
wide web could be cheaper and more efficient than shipping course
packages by land mail. Further, the web provide hypermedia and
multimedia aspects that could give easy access to external resources
and enhance learning.
The course content could be developed by a course designer or
by the teacher. Anyway, it is considered as preactive workload,
and one may assume that the course design will be of importance
to the interactive teacher workload. Of special interest to this
study are student assignments. The assignments are important tools
to introduce the chosen teaching techniques. Presenting the assignment,
the course designer or the teacher could explain whether the assignment
for example is a search of online databases, an e-mail based correspondence
study assignment, a case study, or an online debate.