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CISAER:
Courses on the Internet: Survey, Analysis, Evaluation, Recommendation
CISAER is a project supported by the European Leonardo da Vinci programme. The project aims to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of course provision on the WWW with professional analysis, balanced evaluation and far-reaching recommendations which will provide the field of vocational education and training in the EU with a tool for dealing with this new training dimension.
The project partners are:
The CISAER catalogue aims to provide a comprehensive annotated web-catalogue with links to institutions that provide Internet courses with some use of the web. The courses must also comply with the following criteria:
1. At least one of the following should be web-based:
The catalogue was last updated February 2, 1999
Australia | Austria
Belgium | Brazil
Canada | China | Cyprus
Denmark
Finland
Germany
Iceland | India | Ireland
| Israel | Italy
Japan
The Netherlands | New
Zealand | Norway
Portugal
South Africa | Spain | Sweden
Turkey
UK | USA | Uzbekistan
Name of Institution or Consortium: LEB
URL: www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/9648/Index.html
Name of Contact person: Eduardo Barriga
e-mail: lebarri@col1.telecom.com.co
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Non formal education translated
to Spanish from American universities
Number of courses: 2
Number of students:
Characteristics of Provision: Areópago shares Internet information
to the Hispanic people. Issues on science, ethics, economy. Our visitors are
students and teachers.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Nordisk Netthøgskole
URL: http://www.nnhs.com
Name of Contact person: Morten Flate Paulsen
e-mail: morten@nettskolen.nki.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Number of courses:
Number of students:
Characteristics of Provision: Nordisk Netthøgskole is a collaborative
project between Scandinavian providers of web-based courses. The project partners
are Nettskolen (http://www.nettskolen.com)
in Norway, Göteborgs universitet (http://www.vu.gu.se/)
in Sweden, and Den Grafiske Højskole (http://www.dgh.dk/)
in Denmark.
Name of Institution or Consortium: The African Virtual University
URL: http://www.avu.org/
The African Virtual University is a project sponsored by the World Bank. It's goal is to build capacity in the universities of sub-Saharan countries (e.g. Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, etc.) to enable them to better meet the needs of their students and exploding enrolments.
The courses are currently being delivered from institutions in the US, Ireland, and Canada, with plans to expand to French speaking countries to serve the needs of the Francophone African countries. The courses being delivered are primarily in the fields of mathematics, science, and computers/telecommunications. It is intended that after the first three years, the project will become wholly "Africanized" with all courses originating from African institutions.
The project coordinator is Rebecca Zittle, AVU Evaluation Project Coordinator University of New Mexico
Name of institution or consortium: University of South Australia
URL:http://www.unisa.edu.au
Name of contact person: Ian Reid
E-mail contact person: ian.reid@unisa.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: most areas offered
Number of courses: over 70 at May '98
Number of students: over 8000 individual subject enrolments at may '98
Characteristics of provision: These courses include a range of web offerings
from simple text delivery with teacher-student communication, to complete delivery
of interaction with enhanced graphic capability.
Name of institution or consortium: Sunshine Coast University College
URL: http//www.scuc.edu.au/mba
Name of contact person: Mrs Tracey Fleming
E-mail contact person: fleming@scuc.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Business
Number of courses: Three: Graduate Certificate in Business Administration
(GDBA), Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (GDBA), Master of Business
Administration (MBA)
Number of students: 85 approx
Characteristics of provision:
1. The courses are open to appropriately qualified members of the public, ie those who have an undergraduate degree and work experience which is moving towards middle management levels. The Dean also has discretion to admit people without a first degree, but whose level of work experience is such that they could be expected to cope with and benefit from the course.
2. The courses are offered solely to non campus-based students.
3. All of the following are web-based: interaction with tutor and other students, access or submission of assignments, access to course resources, including on-line access to business journals activities/simulations/exercises.
Name of institution or consortium: Wodonga Institute of TAFE
URL: www.wodonga.tafe.edu.eu
Name of contact person: Claire Brooks
E-mail contact person: cbrooks@wodonga.tafe.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: management and leadership, electronics
and electrotechnology, information technology, professional development, nursing,
welding supervision,
Number of courses: varies
Number of students: varies
Characteristics of provision: These courses are available to post secondary
students. They can be undertaken in conjunction with traditional on-campus courses
or print based off-campus courses. Learning and teaching strategies vary across
the courses. Frequently they consist of a text based framework of information
in addition to activities which include asynchronous and synchronous communication
with teachers and peers, plus online and workplace activities. Some courses
are supported by textbooks and use the online technology primarily for collaborative
work by class members, submission of assignments and communication between all
members of the class. Some courses are only available to a minimum number of
students, while others can be completed by individuals working at their own
pace. A number of courses are still at a developmental stage.
Name of institution or consortium: University of South Australia Division
of Education, Art and Social Sciences.
URL: www.unisa.edu.au
Name of contact person: Dr. David Snewin
E-mail contact person: David.Snewin@UniSA.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Education
Number of courses: A Doctorate for Canadian Students and a masters. B.
Ed (In-Service) for Australian and overseas students.
Number of students: About 60 or so at the moment
Characteristics of provision: Threaded web for chat pages and use web
conferences in real time and provision of internet resource information for
student research. Some backup materials provided on-line which are not in the
normal print media package of learning material.
Name of institution or consortium: The University of Melbourne
URL: http://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Name of contact person: Dr. Kar-Tin lee
E-mail contact person: k.lee@edfac.unimelb.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 200
Characteristics of provision: Web courses are offered to both undergraduate
and postgraduate students. They can elect to complete certain units online and
other units on campus. Alternatively if they choose their subjects carefully
they can complete a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and Training entirely
online with an IT specialisation. Third year students in the undergraduate degree
are able to complete IT electives and core subjects online. Online subjects
are available to provide flexibility for our student body - mainly mature age
and working full-time whilst studying part-time.
Name of institution or consortium: Macquarie University
URL: http://www.mq.edu.au/
Name of contact person: Assoc. Prof. David Rich
E-mail contact person: david.rich@mq.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: most areas offered
Number of courses: 50
Number of students: 4000
Characteristics of provision: A wide variety of characteristics. At level
1, it involves administrative information about the course, some course content,
links to other resources, email contact to staff for more information, etc.
At level 2, there is compulsory usage of the web by all students, generally
with a wider variety of content, learning resources and interaction, the latter
often including virtual tutorials and discussion forums (either synchronous
or asynchronous). At the third level, the course is essentially managed via
the web, with a substantial proportion of content, learning resources and interaction
provided this way.
Name of institution or consortium: TAFE SA Online
URL: http://www.tafe.sa.edu.au/top/
Name of contact person: Dr. Neil Strong - Manager Online Education
E-mail contact person: neils@tafe.sa.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Number of courses: over 100 subjects in 20 accredited courses
Number of students: 1,000 +
Characteristics of provision: The online courses provide learning materials,
guidance, tracking, and instructions from TAFE tutors who communicate with students
through email and online discussion groups. Students can also interact with
one another and TAFE SA support staff through the online learning environment.
Some courses are delivered entirely online while others are supported with a
range of printed materials or other learning resources. Individual and collaborative
learning tasks are designed to be undertaken off and online. Assignments can
be completed online or delivered electronically to the lecturer for marking.
Online quizzes are also used for self-assessment and for some areas of final
assessment.
Name of institution or consortium: Edith Cowan University
URL: www.cowan.edu.au
Name of contact person: M Corrigan
E-mail contact person: m.corrigan@cowan.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Most areas covered and include:
Library and Information Science, Computer Science, Multimedia,
Number of courses: 30+
Number of students: 8000
Characteristics of provision: Over 120 units in 30+ courses with 5 courses
being completely web based as of August 1998. Focus is on interactive learning
environments which are supported with chat rooms, discussion boards and listervs.
Course notes are provided online in a variety of formats including html and
pdf. Many units contain media enhancements such as video, animation and sound.
Access to other academic resources such as library and study skills support
are provided. Administrative services such as enrolment, timetables and access
to personal records of progress are also available.
Name of institution or consortium: Griffith University
URL: http://www.gu.edu.au
Name of contact person: Charlie McKavanagh
E-mail contact person: c.mckavanagh@edn.gu.edu.au
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Pre-service teacher education
and Professional Development for workplace trainers
Number of courses: 36 subjects across a number of different programs
Number of students: Only 10-20 at present, but see plans for 1998-1999
below. Characteristics of provision: For 1998, the web based materials are duplicated
by a paper and telephone based system, but this system will be phased out progressively
over the next 2 years. With full implementation, about 600 students will be
involved across the 36 subjects.
Name of institution or consortium: ICE - Internet Center for Education,
Vienna
URL: http://www.schulen.wien.at/ice/ice_online_kurse/in2/index.html
Name of contact person: willi strube
E-mail contact person: w.strube@schulen.wien.at
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Learning usage of Windows95
Number of courses: 1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: We are building a WWW-plattform as a medium
for distribution of training and information material for teachers - contents
belongs especially for austrian schollsystem. Now we are in experimental stage
developing open and distance learning enviroments where anyone can study with
guidance.
Name of institution or consortium: Virtual University – Supported
by the Einstein College from São Paulo
URL: http://www.ibase.org.br/~ined/
Name of contact person: Unknown
E-mail contact person: einstein@colegioeinstein.com.br
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Social Behaviour, Childcare, Museumology.
Number of courses: 7
Number of students: 350
Characteristics of provision: The Virtual University was born in 1997
with the intention of providing free distance education curses to an open market.
The course materials, such as, graphics, photos, and other images, are on-line.
The courses can only be accessed using a password. The total of registrations
is 50 per course and the other candidates will have to register on a waiting
list. Theses courses could be financed by organisations that have interest in
becoming part of the process. There is also an on-line library where subjects
and books could be consulted; organisation and participation in a virtual seminar
that discusses basic orientations on how to plan, present a research paper and
application for project finance. The resources in the seminar are e-mail and
discussion lists. The seminar is opened to any interested person or professional.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
- Laboratory of Distance Education - LED
URL: http://www.led.ufsc.br
Name of contact person: Ricardo Miranda Barcia
e-mail: led@eps.ufsc.br
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Ergonomics, Production Engineering,
Information Systems Engineering, Applied Intelligence, Education
Number of courses: 17
Number of students: 500
Characteristics of Provision: The Laboratory of Distance Education starts
in 1995 producing customized courses. Since then we have been developing courses
using a combination of different media, and attending a large number of students.
The courses are build after a diagnosis for the need of the institutions involved
(public and private) and the students' identification, creating a specific methodology,
planning, media production, implementation and evaluation. Today we have 300
masters and doctoral students in courses using videoconference, Internet and
face to face meetings, more than 100 students in certificate courses using Internet,
print material and face to face workshops and more than 160.000 enrolls in non-certificate
courses all over Brazil. The Laboratory it's a research center devoted to design
and administrate courses at a distance that are adequate to the students context
and provide support for the professors and students involved.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Pontifícia Universidade Católica
do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
URL: http://www.maxwell.lambda.ele.puc-rio.br/
Name of contact person: Ana Pavani
e-mail: apavani@lambda.ele.puc-rio.br
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Electrical Engineering
Number of courses: 6
Number of students: 110
Characteristics of Provision: Maxwell Project: This project is under
development by the Electrical Engineering Department. The site has been used
as a support to regular undergraduate and graduate courses which are taught
on campus. External users have access to the site. Next semester the number
of courses is expected to be 12 and the number of students to be over 200.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Universidade Virtual
URL: www.universidadevirtual.br
Name of contact person: Lina Sandra Barreto
e-mail: lina@universidadevirtual.br
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Education, Environment, Political
Sciences.
Number of courses: 2
Number of students: 38
Characteristics of Provision: The Virtual University is part of a traditional
face to face University. The University of Brasilia - UnB is a public institution,
Federal Level, with approximately 15 000 students. This University, which is
promoting the project Universidade Virtual have an excellent evaluation upon
their courses and teachers.
The project offering courses via the Internet have a reasonable acceptance by the teachers of UnB.
Name of institution or consortium: Acadia University
URL: http://webster.acadiau.ca/conted/courses
Name of contact person: The Administrator
E-mail contact person: continuing.education@acadiau.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Astronomy
Number of courses: 2
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The primary resources for both courses
are textbooks. For some parts of the courses an 'observing handbook' will be
required. A shareware 'sky program' (available by ftp on the internet) will
be used for planning observation session and for simulating the sky configuration
of planets and comets. Links will be made to web resources which provide recent
information and images. Students questions and assignments will be dealt through
email and a newsgroup for each course is available for discussion between students
and with the instructor. A special web page will be maintained for the course
to supply information on and internet links to interesting current happenings.
Name of institution or consortium: Assiniboine Community College
URL: http://www.assiniboinec.mb.ca/cae/welcome1.htm
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person: use the request for more information section of
the web site
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Adult Education
Number of courses:1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: This is a first of a series of seven courses
in the Certificate in Adult Education (CAE). It is available entirely on the
web. Participants are required to complete one assignment successfully to pass
the course.
Name of institution or consortium: Athabasca University
URL: http://www.athabascau.ca/html/courses/online.htm
Name of contact person: The Call Centre
E-mail contact person: callcentre@athabascau.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information Science, Nursing,
Social Sciences, Computer Information Systems, Psychology
Number of courses: 40
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The course on 'Accessing Information' is
print-based but it requires students to have access to a computer and modem.
One of the units in the course deals with accessing information over the Internet
including WWW.
Course work on Nursing courses includes participation in electronic mail, computer conferencing, and exploration of WWW sites.
An electronic Reference Shelf of WWW research and document sites is provided for the Social Science courses.
Computing and Psychology courses are developed for delivery using WWW and comptuer-mediated communication.
Athabasca University students have a choice of either studying courses as homestudy or as ViTAL (Virtual Teaching and Learning). A course package in ViTAL includes the software, Lotus Notes, and some print materials, i.e. textbooks. Depending on the course, students will download course materials from the ViTAL server or the electronic course materials will be included in the course package. ViTAL does not support MAC users.
Name of institution or consortium: Community Learning Network (CLN)
URL: http://www.cln.org/ coop1/courses/online.html
Name of contact person: Sharon Gagne
E-mail contact person: sgagne@openschool.bc.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Telecommunications, Teacher Education
Number of courses: 5
Number of students: Courses are on an open web site
Characteristics of provision: CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate
technology into their classrooms. It offers annotated links to educational WWW
sites and develops its own resources. Several online courses on telecommunications
topics of interest are included. Each of these courses is available on the CLN
WWW site for teachers to take at the leisure. Typically, each online course
consists of 8 lessons. Each lesson will consist of explanatory and practical
activities.
Name of institution or consortium: Dalhousie University/Henson College
URL: http://www.dal.ca/henson/demsm/overview.html
Name of contact person: The coordinator
E-mail contact person: dehsm@dal.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Management, Health
Number of courses: 10
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: Online Management Development Diploma for
Emergency Health Services Professionals consists of 10 half-credit courses.
The program is conducted through the internet and web-based conferencing using
WebCT which has been developed by the University of British Columbia. The courses
use texts and required readings in print format, and on-line learning technology
for recommended readings, lessons, and course activities (e.g., assignments,
tests, self tests, etc.).
Name of institution or consortium: Mount Royal College
URL: http://wwwacad.mtroyal.ab.ca/adc/accn/index.htm
Name of contact person: Brenda Templeton
E-mail contact person: btempleton@mtroyal.ab.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Nursing
Number of courses: 1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: ACCN 1300 Physiology is the first complete
on-line course in a series of courses offered by the Advanced Studies in Critical
Care Nursing (ACCN) Program. The course has been developed for use with Netscape
3.0 and makes use of ToolVox plug-in that allows voice audio files to be played,
ShockWave, from Macromedia, which allows animations to be played, and Powwow
Personal Communication which is a web-based conferencing system which allows
real-time chat and supports both moderated and unmoderated conferencing for
up to 50 people.
Name of institution or consortium: Open Learning Agency
URL: http://www.ola.bc.ca/ou/courses/web.html
Name of contact person: The Web Coordinator
E-mail contact person: ouocweb@ola.bc.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Administration, Geography, Psychology,
Sociology, Management
Number of courses: 6 (under development)
Number of students: none yet
Characteristics of provision: The Open University and Open College (OU/OC)
are part of the Open Learning Agency in Biritsh Columbia. They develop and acquire
courses that use open learning methods of delivery (soon to include World-Wide
Web delivery) and offer programs of study that lead to university degrees, college
diplomas, and certificates.
Name of institution or consortium: University of British Columbia
URL: http://itesm.cstudies.ubc.ca/info/
Name of contact person: Heather Francis
E-mail contact person: heather.francis@ubc.ca
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Technology-based distributed learning
Number of courses: 5
Number of students: maximum 100 per course
Characteristics of provision: Aimed at academics, instructional designers,
instructors and program administrators in post-secondary education, the following
courses use the Internet to enable participants to learn on-line about technology-based
distributed learning. Delivered internationally, these courses can be taken
individually or as part of a UBC Post-Graduate Certificate in Technology-Based
Distributed Learning developed in collaboration with the Monterrey Institute
of Technology (ITESM), Mexico. Linked through the Internet from as many as 17
different countries, students interact with each other and their instructors
to discuss issues in the field and collaborate on assignments.
Name of institution: The Open University of Hong Kong
URL: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk
Name of contact person: Kin-sun Yuen
E-mail contact person: ksyuen@ouhk.edu.hk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: business information systems (B321),
Internet (U123), telecommunications (CT211 and CT212).
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: 630
Characteristics of provision: The Open University is at its experimental
stage in using the Internet to deliver its courses. In addition to a print version
of the course, B321 Advanced Business Systems offers an electronic version,
in which students can get access to the course materials stored in a server
housed at the university, or through the Internet. Submission of assignments,
return of marked assignments, discussion among tutors and students, email facilities,
on line evaluation of the course, and a number of other administrative functions
can be done through electronic means. As for U123 Introduction to Internet,
most of the course is in print form, although there is regular reference to
and activities carried out on the Internet. There is one on-line study unit
in which students study through logging on the Internet. Discussion groups and
email facilities are also provided for tutors and students of the course. The
two CT courses are on telecommunications, and a lot of references for the courses
are accessed through the Internet.
Name of institution: Government of Cyprus
URL: http://www.kypros.org/Greek
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person: Kypros-Net@Kypros.org
Curriculum areas of courses using web: learning Greek
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: The courses are on an open web site Characteristics
- Kypros-Net in conjunction with the Cypros Broadcast Corporation offers the
possibility of 'learning Greek on the Internet'. The course consists of 105
lessons contained in audio files plus a web board for student interaction. There
is an English/Greek dictionary, spell checker and downloadable Greek fonts.
Name of institution or consortium: Aarhus University/Jutland Open University
URL: http://imv.aau.dk/jaau/
Name of contact person: Joergen Bang
E-mail contact person: jbang@imv.aau.dk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: media and communication
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: app.50
Characteristics of provision: WWW as a medium for distribution of course
materials in a combination with videoconferencing is still at an experimental
level at Aarhus Universit, primarily used for the distance learning students
registrated at Jutland Open University.
Name of institution or consortium: Center of Distance Learning
URL: http://www.cfu.dk/International/International.html
E-mail contact person: Susanne Jensen
E-mail contact person: smj@cfu.hsrds.dk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information technology, Administration,
Economics, Environmental studies, Law, HRM, etc.
Number of courses: 41
Number of students: 5000
Characteristics of provision: Center for FjernUndervisning (Center of
Distance Learning) was established in 1997. It is a faculty within Randers Business
College and is situated in the mid-eastern part of Jutland, Denmark. The faculty
is managed by a group of 30 people and we only operate within Distance Learning.
We are currently among the largest "suppliers" of Distance Learning in Denmark.
At Center for FjernUndervisning we aim to help and educate people. Distance
learning allows students, who work or who are geographically challenged, to
achieve education at their own pace. The faculty believes that education should
be available to everyone and nobody should be disadvantaged, due to their own
particular circumstances. The major mission is to heighten the educational level
and competence of the Danish population. All communication is done by email
(support also through telephone) and teachers are available 24 hours a day.
Additionally the students have access to "StudyNet". StudyNet is an on-line
education web-based training system where the students may test themselves and
carry out self-appraisals within the course syllabus. Furthermore there is a
chat site, where other students can be contacted.
Name of institution or consortium:
URL: http://avoin.helsinki.fi
Name of contact person: seija malmi
E-mail contact person: seija.malmi@helsinki.fi
Curriculum areas of courses using web: law, mathematics, chemistry, academic
writing, communication, dataprocessing etc.
Number of courses: a. 10
Number of students: a. 160
Characteristics of provision: We are using "easy" technology, courses
should be used by modems from homes. We are building an open learning environment,
where it is possible to anyone to study, get guidance and get office-services
as well as communicate with peer students. Helsinki university is the largest
university in Finland that´s why we try to offer virtual courses from different
fields from the university. The amount of courses is increasing all the time,
most of the courses are on basic level. We have collected all Finnish open university
courses to one database, which address is http://www.avoinyliopisto.fi/ There
one can find also all the virtual or distance ed. courses arranged by finnish
open universities.
Name of institution or consortium: Turku university/The Centre for
Extension Studies
URL: http://avoin.utu.fi
Name of contact person: Kaisa Vahahyyppa
E-mail contact person: kaisa.vahahyyppa@utu.fi
Curriculum areas of courses using web: European studies, Psychology,
Educational studies, Continuing studies for teachers etc.
Number of courses: 6
Number of students: 220
Characteristics of provision: We are using www-learning environment which
offers e-mail, www-conferences for negotiations and a support system for the
participants. We combine the traditional materials , especially printed materials
and the new technology in our courses emphasizing the role of co-operative interaction
among students and teachers. The participants can always get support from the
teachers and also from other students. The supply of our courses is increasing
with increasing demand.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Munich, Institute for
Educational Research
URL: http://infix.emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de/nic/seminar.html
Name of contact person: Nic. Nistor
E-mail contact person: nistor@emp.paed.uni-muenchen.de
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Learning with New Media
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 30
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Institut für Rechtsinformatik
URL: http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/seminar/
Name of contact person: Friedrich Scheuermann
E-mail contact person: fritz@jura.uni-sb.de
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Internet usage
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 120
Characteristics of provision: Several internet-based courses with changing
topics. Based on collaborative work. Law-related internet project at the following
URL: http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/
Name of institution or consortium: DIFF is the coordinating institution
Other partners are:
Name of institution or consortium: Tele-Akademie der FH-Furtwangen
(Univ. of Applied Science)
URL: http://www.tele-ak.fh-furtwangen.de
Name of contact person: Dr. Thomas Jechle
E-mail contact person: tele-ak@fh-furtwangen.de
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Educational Technology, Information
Science, Economics
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: 30-100
Characteristics of provision: The "Tele-Akademie" offers three kinds
of web-based courses:
(1) Cooperative tele-learning (e.g. 10 months course on "Multimedia and Tele-Media
in Education"): web is used to deliver study material, to faciliate individual
learner support and to enhance different kinds of group work among students.
(2) Individual tele-learning: online texts and parts of lectures (real video
player).
(3) Tele-Teaching (e.g. Basics of Design): based on videoconference technology.
Name of institution or consortium: CAFE MONDIAL
URL: http://www.cafe-mondial.de
Name of contact person: Jolande Leinenbach
E-mail contact person: youandi@compuserve.com
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information Technology, Multimedia,
Web-Design, Health Care, Animal Health, Languages, Arts, Music
Number of courses: 20
Number of students: 900
Characteristics of provision: CAFE MONDIAL is a European Consortium
of universities, colleges, and private institutions providing professional
training via WWW and Intranet systems. The consortium emerged from the EU
telematics Applications Project CAFE MONDIAL UR1003. The students register
via WWW, and then receive a resource package containing literature, CD-ROM,
CDs, and/or other media. They are then moderated by experts/tutors who stimulate
the interaction, involve them in project activities and provide additional
support materials. One of the global objectives of each course is that moderators/experts
help students and trainers to learn and work creatively, critically and efficiently
using WWW, Intranet systems and other IT tools.
Name of institution or consortium: Academy of European Law - Cyberversity
URL: http://www.aer-academy.de
Name of contact person: Prof. Wulfhard Goettling, President
E-mail contact person: aer@aer-academy.de
Curriculum areas of courses using web: European Law, Business Law,
Personnel Administration
Number of courses: 28
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: All courses are provided through a special
multi-phase learning approach, totally web-based. Self-structured learning
materials using web resources are supported by tele-teaching and other multimedia
educational technologies. Extended programme offerings in Business Administration,
Management and Society Studies will be initiated in early 1999 in cooperation
with affiliated out-of-state universities.
Name of institution or consortium: Zentrum fuer Fernstudien und Universitäre
Weiterbildung
URL: http://www.zfuw.uni-kl.de/seminare.htm
Name of contact person: Dr. Burkhard Lehmann
E-mail contact person: lehmann@rhrk.uni-kl.de
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Using new information technologies
& Health care
Number of courses: 2
Number of students: 40
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Verkmenntaskolinn a Akureyri
URL: http://hyrna.ismennt.is/
Name of contact person: Haukur Ágústsson
E-mail contact person: hag@ismennt.is
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Number of courses:
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The following courses are offered in
distance education at the Verkmenntaskolinn a Akureyri in Northern Iceland.
BÓK 103, 203, 303 Book keeping, accounting
DAN 102, 202, 212 Danish
EÐL 103, 203, 213 Physics
EFN 103, 203, 303, 363 Chemistry
ENS 100, 102, 202, 212, 303, 323, 333, 403, 423 English
FÉL 103, 203 Sociology
FJÁ 103 Finance
FRA 103 French
HBF 102, 203 Health studies
HSP 123 Philosophy
ÍSL 102, 202, 212, 242, 313, 332, 342, 352, 362, 373 Icelandic
ÍÞR 113 Sports
JAR 103 Geology
LAT 102, 103, 201, 203 Latin
LÍF 103, 203, 303 Biology
LOL 113, 213 Organs and biological physics
LHF 113 Medicines and drugs
MAR 103 Marketing
MBS 101 The organisation of documents
MKF 102 Pedagogy in the workplace
MRS 103 Practical closing of accounts for craftsmen
MST 104 Management in the workplace
NÆR 103, 202 Nourishment
REI 103 Practcal closing of accounts
REK 103 Management
SAG 103, 202, 212, 222, 232, 272 History
SÁL 103, 213, 223, 343 Psychology
STÆ 100, 102, 113, 122, 202, 213, 223, 243, 303, 323, 403 Mathematics
TJÁ 102 Expression
TÖL 222 Computering
VER 102 Business mathematics
VÉL 102 Typing
VRR 102 Business law
ÞJÓ 103, 203 Economics
ÞÝS 103, 203, 303, 403 German
ÖRF 101 Security in the workplace
In many of these courses the WWW is used quite extensively. In all of them WWW-based work is in progress to a different extent. Various material pertaining to the teaching touching on all these courses has been placed on the web.
All these courses are at the highschool to college level. More courses will be added in the coming semesters.
Name of institution or consortium: Indira Gandhi National Open University
Url: http://www.ignou.edu
Name of contact person: Prof. M M Pant, Director, School of Computer
and Information Sciences, IGNOU
E-mail contact person: socis@del2.vsnl.net.in
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Internet Awareness Web Design
and Site Maintenance
Number of courses: 2
Number of students: NA
Characteristics of provision: IGNOU has taken initiatives to launch
its course through the web. This will be accessible to all the students in
remote areas. Many Multi-Media Learning Centres have been established to provide
services to the students.
Name of institution or consortium: DeLLTTi Project (Delivering Lifelong
Learning Through Telematics), Adult Education Office, University College Dublin
URL: http://www.ucd.ie/~delltti
Name of contact person: Ashley Gaskin
E-mail contact person: ashley.gashkin@ucd.ie
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Arts & Humanties; Computers;
Training
Number of courses: 8
Number of students: currently recruiting
Characteristics of provision: Adult Education Office initiative. Pilot
project to run for two years. Must be self-financing within this period.
Name of institution or consortium: The University Of Ulster Magee
URL: http://comm.infm.ulst.ac.uk/
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person:
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Computers
Number of courses:
Number of students: currently recruiting
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Flexible Learning Cork
URL:
Name of contact person: Ruth Coughlan
E-mail contact person: ruth.coughlan@flexiblelearning.ie
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
National Certificate Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
National Certificate Engineering - Electro-Mechanical,
City & Guilds Process Plant Operation Level 1City & Guilds Process
Plant Operation Level 2
City & Guilds Pharmaceutical Processing & Packaging
Higher National Certificate - Chemical Process Engineering
Higher National Certificate - Multi-Disciplinary Engineering
Certificate in Team Leadership
Certificate in First Line Management
Certificate in Personal Work Skills
Certificate in Managing Chemical Operations
Number of courses: 12
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: The Marketing Institute of Ireland
URL: http://www.mii.ie
Name of contact person: Catherine Kilbride
E-mail contact person: mii@iol.ie
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Marketing
Number of courses: one
Number of students: 1200
Characteristics of provision: Student Interaction
Name of institution or consortium: Irish Centre for Distance Education
Research and Applications
URL: http://comm.infm.ulst.ac.uk/
Name of contact person: Hugh O Neill
E-mail contact person: icdera@tinet.ie
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Internet Protocols and Tools
Browsers and the World Wide Web
E-Mail and Groupware
Streaming Audio and Video
Making money on the Web
Tools for ecommerce
Telephones and ecommerce
Mobility and ecommerce
Videoconferencing protocols and tools
Business uses
Techniques for successful videoconferencing
Skills and equipment
Number of courses: one
Number of students: 12
Characteristics of provision: As the new millennium approaches, a major
task for business people everywhere is the analysis of the breathtaking array
of technologies already developed by the telecommunications industry and now
ready for implementation. It is particularly important that small and medium
sized enterprises be able to exploit these technologies in order to remain
competitive. This course is aimed at these enterprise. It will familiarise
them with technologies such as: universal mobile telephony, satellite communications,
universal personal telephony, fibre-to-the-local-loop, two-way video codec
systems, videoconferencing to the desktop, ISDN, the Internet and World Wide
Web.
Name of institution or consortium: Gordon College of Education
URL: http://www.macam98.ac.il/chtml/ish
E-mail contact person: Naomi Weinstein
E-mail contact person: neomi@mofet.macam98.ac.il
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Differences between genders
in language, culture, Physiology and the brain.
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 10
Characteristics of provision: It is a college for preservice teachers.
The course is written in the Hebrew language.
Name of institution or consortium: For. Com Consorzio Interuniversitario
URL: http://www.forcom.unito.it:8000/
Name of contact person: Tommaso Musolini
E-mail contact person: <>Musolini@forcom.unito.it
Curriculum areas of courses using web: New Media Theory and Technologies
- www and HTML for beginners - Italian Writing
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 145
Characteristics of provision: For.Com coopertes with Turin University
- Communication Sciences Degree.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche
- C.N.R.
URL: http://www.itd.ge.cnr.it/
Name of Contact person: Donatella Persico
E-mail : persico@itd.ge.cnr.it
Curriculum areas of courses using web: ODL for SMEs, Environmental
education, teachers training
Number of courses: 5
Number of students: 150
Characteristics of Provision: Based on the computer conferencing system
First Class, ITD tutors propose an on line project based approach. According
to the content and objectives of the course, students may work in groups or
individually. According to distance of students from ITD, there may be face
to face sessions or videoconference sessions as well. In the case of the ODL
for SMEs course, trainers based in Genoa also attend face to face lessons.
In the case of the International course Eumedea, on environmental education,
training takes place mainly on line and occasionally through multi-point videoconference.
ITD is also partner in the T3 project (http://www.ex.ac.uk/telematics/T3/welcome.html
) where a number of teacher training institutions are developing and experimenting
international, web based courses for teachers.
Name of Institution or Consortium: TRAINET
URL: http://eetp.trainet.it
Name of contact person: Graziano Di Paola
e-mail: gdipaola@mbox.trainet.it
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Telecommunications, management
Number of courses: 8
Number of students: 149
Characteristics of Provision: Courses are delivered via a virtual campus
on the web and some also trough video lessons broadcast via satellite. All
course materials are organized in modules. Communication is bi-directional
and interactive. In all the courses learners are provided with on-line and
off-line course materials as well as interactive tutoring. Through the Virtual
Campus learners may enroll in courses, studying individually or in groups
with access to a tutor as well as to libraries of multimedia learning materials.
A secretariat is available to deal with administrative matters.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Lab of Computational Medicine (LCM)
URL: http://www.unina.it/medicina/LCM/index.htm
Name of contact person: Prof. Umberto Giani
e-mail: ugiani@cds.unina.it
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Informatics and Telematics in
Health Sciences
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 20
Characteristics of Provision: LCM is part of the Faculty of Medicine
of the University of Naples "Federico II", Department of Neuro-sciences and
human communication sciences. The mission of the LCM is described at the web
site www.unina.it/medicina/LCM/index.htm
. The course is a one year postgraduate master with a final diploma directed
to both medical, nursing and midwifery students but also to other professionals
which directly or indirectly deal with the medical areas, e.g. engineers,
biologists, physicists, philosophers and so on. It started this year and is
based upon a mix of web based interactions and seminars and/or lectures given
by professors coming from the whole national territory.
Name of institution or consortium: WIDE Project, School of Internet.
URL: http://www.sfc.wide.ad.jp/soi
Name of contact person: Jun Murai, Keiko Okawa
E-mail contact person: junsec@wide.ad.jp
and keiko@sfc.wide.ad.jp
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Internet technology and computer
science
Number of courses: 8
Number of students: 500
Characteristics of provision: WIDE project is the biggest researchers'
group in Japan in the internet technology area. It started 'School of Internet'(SOI)experimental
project to research a new form of University on the Internet environment where
anyone can learn from anywhere anytime. Current focused area is 'Internet
technology'. SOI provides several lectures from several public and private
Universities, Lectures are provided by synchronized video and web materials
online. Students can submit and review their assignments each other. The course
surveys are performed online as well.
Name of institution or consortium: Open University of the Netherlands
URL: http://www.ou.nl
Name of contact person: Dr. E.J.R. Koper
E-mail contact person: rob.koper@ouh.nl
Curriculum areas of courses using web: law, informatics, psychology,
cultural sciences, administration, economics, environmental studies
Number of courses: 360
Number of students: 2500
Characteristics of provision: All courses have general webservices,
some more (fully online).
Name of institution or consortium: University of amsterdam, communication
science
URL: http://www.pscw.uva.nl/commkaart/
Name of contact person: Piet Bakker
E-mail contact person: bakker@pscw.uva.nl
Curriculum areas of courses using web: media knowledge, internet practice
Number of courses: 2
Number of students: 300
Characteristics of provision: One course about how to search for information
on the Internet. Another (Mutiple Choice Test) can be used by students to
test their media knowledge.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Twente/Faculty of
Educational Technology
URL: http://teletop.edte.utwente.nl
and also, http://www.edte.utwente.nl
Name of contact person: Cees van Vilsteren, Betty Collis and Elka Remmers
E-mail contact person: e.remmers@edte.utwente.nl
Curriculum areas of courses using web: educational technology
Number of courses: 45
Number of students: 120
Characteristics of provision: The Faculty of Educational Science and
Technology at the University of Twente makes use of WWW-based environments
to support its courses, and has been pioneering this since 1994. In the regular
programme, students can attend full time or part-time and generally at a distance,
using the WWW environments designed and supported by our TeleTOP system. We
also have a Masters of Science in Education Training and Systems Design for
international (non-Dutch) students that makes heavy use of the WWW, including
for distance participation.
Name of institution or consortium: Massey University - College of
Education, Palmerston North,
URL: www.massey.ac.nz (Massey
University); www.massey.ac.nz/~muce
(College of Education)
Name of contact person: Bill Anderson or Mary Simpson
E-mail contact person: w.g.anderson@massey.ac.nz
m.g.simpson@massey.ac.nz
Curriculum areas of courses using web: I nternet Awareness Web Design
and Site Maintenance
Number of courses: NA
Number of students: NA
Characteristics of provision: The College offers a three year programme
of primary pre-service teacher education (the Bachelor of Teaching)as a fully
distance option (the Externally Delivered Option or EDO). All members of the
public can apply to undertake the course of study, but there is a limit to
the number of applicants selected each year.
The B Tchg EDO programme involves students in the study of approximately 30 papers over the three years in the areas of educational studies, professional inquiry and practice, studies in curriculum and disciplinary studies. Each year an intake of 50 students starts the programme. There have been two intakes to date (Jan 97, Jan 98)
Name of institution or consortium: NKI Nettskolen
URL: http://www.nettskolen.com
Name of contact person: Morten Flate Paulsen
E-mail contact person: morten@nettskolen.nki.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Undergraduate level: Information technology (15 courses), Bussines
administration (13 courses), Teacher trainig (6 courses), Philosophy (4 courses),
Psycology (8 courses), and a number of other courses.
Secondary level: Language and science (7 courses)
Number of courses: 60
Number of students: 1000
Characteristics of provision: NKI has offered online distance education
courses since 1987. NKI Nettskolen is designed so that distance students can
do all their communication online. The philosophy of NKI Nettskolen has always
been to offer programs that are independent of time and space through a system
that facilitates flexible communication for administrative, social, and teaching
purposes.
Name of institution or consortium: Tromsø College, Faculty
of Education
URL: http://www.hitos.no/lutd/
Name of contact person: Steinar Thorvaldsen
E-mail contact person: Steinar.Thorvaldsen@hitos.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Computer Science, Enviromental
Physics
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 70
Characteristics of provision: WWW as a medium for distribution of course
materials and dialog in a combination with students meeting at campus 3-8
times a year. Primarily used for the distance learning students. We started
our first experiments with Internet based course in 1992.
Name of institution or consortium: Bergen College of education. ODEL
network
URL: http://www.hib.no
Name of contact person: Ida M. Knudsen
E-mail contact person: idak@lsv.hib.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: primary school education, pedagogy,
norwegian language, mathematics, estetics
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 250
Characteristics of provision: The course has offerd online distance
education for two years.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Oslo
URL: http://www.uio.no
Name of contact person: Ingvild Hansen
E-mail contact person: ingvild.hansen@usit.uio.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: FINT - fjernundervisning i Internett
tjenester
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 20
Characteristics of provision: An interactive introduction to communication
services is the material for a self-study course developed at USIT (Center
for Information Technology Services, University of Oslo). The web course is
in Norwegian. This term (spring 98) we plan to gatherings, but usually there
is only one startup meeting. All participants get a handbook and they have
to send in mandatory exercises by email to get a certificate (kursbevis),
proving they have done the course. The course is open to all employees at
the University of Oslo. This term we have also have allowed 3 students from
Institute of Informatics. All communication is done by email. The course has
a period of seven weeks, estimated work per participant is 5-8 hours per week.
Name of institution or consortium: NTNU
URL: http://www.ntnu.no/
Name of contact person: Jan Wibe
E-mail contact person: jan.wibe@adm.ntnu.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Scientific and language subjects
Number of courses: 7
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: NTNU is offering most of their on campus
Scientific courses with web support. Some few of this courses has been opened
for external students. The seven courses mentioned in this form are special
made for distance education.
Name of institution or consortium: NITOL - Norway-net with IT for
Open Learning
URL: http://www.idb.hist.no/nitol/
Name of contact person: Harald Haugen
E-mail contact person: harald.haugen@hsh.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Several subject areas within
engineering, teacher education, IT, etc.
Number of courses: 80
Number of students: 1,300
Characteristics of provision: Four independant institutions: Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (IT / Informatics) Stord/Haugesund College
(teacher training, information science, engineering, nautics) Agder College
(engineering, IT, telematics etc.) Sør-Trøndelag College (engineering, IT,
business adm., etc.) Collaboration on course development as well as on practical
arrangments.
Name of institution or consortium: Agder College
URL: http://www.hia.no
Name of contact person: Bodil Ask
E-mail contact person: Bodil.Ask@hia.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: http://www.grm.hia.no/intkont/ectx
Number of courses: 18
Number of students: 600
Characteristics of provision: Institute of Technology, dep. of Information
and Communication Technology. Most web courses are computer science courses.
Name of institution or consortium: NKS Distance Education
URL: http://www.nks.no/nks
Name of contact person: Dagny Blom
E-mail contact person: dagny.blom@nks.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Web-design, Law, Journalism,
Norwegian, History of Art, History of Ideas, Management
Number of courses: 10
Number of students: 200
Characteristics of provision: NKS Distance Education has been designing
web-based courses since 1997, based on our experience with CMC-based courses
over the past ten years. Our web-based courses fall into three different categories:
1) Fully web-based courses
2) Virtual classes, with a fixed starting and finishing point
3) Partially web-based courses, where student interaction with tutor is web-based
- as a minimum.
Name of institution or consortium: (SEVU - Senter for etter- og videreutdanning)
Centre for continuing education University of Bergen
URL: http://www.uib.no/sevu/index.html
Name of contact person: Michael Riisøen
E-mail contact person: michael.riisoen@sevu.uib.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Environmental studies, Aquaculture,
Information technology, History, Religion,election observation, Media studies,Work
and industrial relations
Number of courses: Ca 10
Number of students: 100- 500 a year
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Pedagogisk Senter, Karmøy
URL: http://www.karmoyped.no/transpro
Name of contact person: John Rullestad
E-mail contact person: jrullest@online.no
Curriculum areas of courses using web: All subject areas as crosscurricular
projects in primary and lower secondary schools
Number of courses: 5-6
Number of students: 30-40
Characteristics of provision:
1. Disseminate experience and develop strategies in using the project method
as a way of learning.
2. Implement the project method in transnational projects
3. Disseminate experience and develop strategies for using ICT in transnational
teleprojects.
4. Design and plan involvement in future transnational teleprojects.
5. Educational application of Internet with students, peers and course organisers.
After the initial in-service course in Prague 14th-19th Sept. participants will be given an on-line course on the educational use of the Internet. This course is a collaborative course involving The Royal Danish School of Education, Copenhagen, DK, Highland Council, Scotland , UK,. Charles University, Prague, CZ and Pedagogisk Senter, Karmøy ,NO. A good example of a transnational project involving schools in scarcely-populated araes can be found on: http://home.sol.no/~feoey/islands.htm
Name of institution or consortium: Formedia
URL: http://www.iefeg.formedia.pt/index.htm
Name of contact person: Eduardo Cruz – General Director of Formedia
E-mail contact person: formedia@mail.esoterica.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: New information and communication
technologies, electronic mail, the world wide web, Marketing and administration.
Number of courses: 26
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The Instituto Europeu de Formação
de Empresários e Gestores, coordenated by Formedia, has developed
the 3 courses: Europeutrainers, Gestão de Marketing and Tempo. In general,
the courses have a great use of student manuals, videos, CD ROM and computer
software. The students interact with the teacher by e-mail and electronic
conference.
Name of institution or consortium: Universidade Católica Portuguesa
– Programme Dislogo
URL: http://www.dislogo.ucp.pt
Name of contact person: Manuel João Pereira, Executive Co-ordinator
E-mail contact person: helpdesk@dislogo.ucp.mailpac.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Administration, Human Resources
Management.
Number of courses: 8
Number of students: 400
Characteristics of provision: Dislogo is a specialised training
programme for Executives and uses a great deal of Internet resources. The
Portuguese Catholic University launched the program in 1994. It seeks the
updating and improvement of the middle and high-level executives knowledge
and skills. These executives basically come from small and large organisations.
The participant follows the class from home or from the work. An Integreated
Training Network (Rede Integrada de Formação) and Videoconference are the
means used by the participants to communicate with other participants and
with the university teachers. Through the Internet students may also send
messages, clear doubts, answer questions, submit assignments and exams.
Name of Institution or Consortium: TecMinho - Associação
Universidade - Empresa para o Desenvolvimento
URL: http://www.eng.uminho.pt/tecminho
Name of contact person: Ana Dias
e-mail: aad-tecm@eng.uminho.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Electronic Information Services
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 50
Characteristics of provision: The course is offered free of charge
via the web. It is an independent learning course based on an Internet site.
All course content is on the web. The tutoring is mainly machine based but
there is the possibility to have human tutoring if required.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Universidade Aberta
URL: http://www.infodesketop.com/eetp
Name of contact person: Jose Lagarto
e-mail: icmua@mail.telepac.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Heath and Safety at the Work
Place
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 12
Characteristics of provision: The course is offered free of charge
via the web. The contents are in the web, the communications are based on
private e-mail and the tutoring is available via thematic conferences. The
s/w ultimate bulletin board is used.
Name of Institution or Consortium: AESBUC - Associação
da Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
URL: http://www2.esb.ucp.pt/twt
Name of contact person: Eduardo Luís Cardoso
e-mail: elc@esb.ucp.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Quality management, Environment
management and Wine marketing
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 50
Characteristics of Provision: The web based courses provided by AESBUC
are continuing training courses included in the AESBUC annual plan. The courses
include face to face sessions with distance interaction in between supported
by a web environment (TWT) for trainers and trainees communication, for training
material distribution, for group work and for management of the training process.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Digito Formação
URL: http://www.digito.pt/formacao
Name of contact person: João Beltrão
e-mail: joao.beltrao@digito.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Computer systems
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 100
Characteristics of Provision: Digito Formação is a private
company that offers commercially courses in computer systems throughout Internet.
At the moment they have 100 students divided by 3 courses. Digito Formação
is part of the enterprise Produções Digitais Online Ldª and
had initiated their training activities in May 1998.
Name of Institution or Consortium: TDC-Tecnologia das Comunicações,
Lda
URL: www.tdc.pt
Name of contact person: Paula Morais
e-mail: p.morais@tdc.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Telecommunications, Tariffs,
Finance, Project Management
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: 12
Characteristics of Provision: TDC-Tecnologia das Comunicações,
Lda is an international company, fully owned by Portugal Telecom. There has
been a strategic approach to distance training by creating a network of partners.
The pedagogical methodology used is centered on the potentially of Internet
as a collaborative system where the tutor (an expert in its field) interacts
with the trainees and vice-versa. The content can be accessed through internet.
The evaluation is made in modular terms and has a final summative evaluation.
The system, is also assessed, for example, in terms of flexibility, easy of
use and functionality.
Name of Institution or Consortium: IFB - Instituto de Formação
Bancaria
URL: http://www.ifb.pt
Name of contact person: Reinaldo Figueira - Course Director
e-mail: r.figueira@ifb.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Financial Markets. New courses
on banking subjects are being prepared.
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 47
Characteristics of provision: The Instituto de Formacão Bancária
(Banking Training Institute, IFB) is the department for professional training
of the Associação Portuguesa de Bancos (Portuguese Banks Association).
Advanced training methodologies, using telematics media, are often used. Thousands
of students have already attended the IFB distance learning courses, mostly
coming from the bank and financial sector. The "Introduction to Financial
Market - Via Internet" intends to set up a Virtual School. The participants
are organized in teams with a tutor who directs the learning process through
e-mail and computer conferences. The course is divided in units and each student
also receives written materials and video.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Universidade do Minho
URL: http://www.iep.uminho.pt/mjoao/foco98
Name of contact person: Maria-João Gomes (who is responsible
for the creation of the course).
e-mail: mjgomes@iep.uminho.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: New information and communication
technologies, teaching and learning in the "Information Society", professional
development of teachers.
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 20
Characteristics of provision: The course is oriented to in-service
teachers. It has a presential component of 20 hours and a distance formation
component via the Internet estimated in 30 hours. The distance education component
uses the Internet to deliver study material (download of files or reading
of documents as www pages) and to discuss the study material. The discussion
of the study material involves the participation in electronic conferences.
The students interact with the teacher and with each other by e-mail and electronic
conference. Through the Internet, the participants discuss the subject
lesson, clear doubts, answer questions and submit assignments.
Name of Institution or Consortium: Associação Industrial
do Minho
URL: http://www.aiportuense.pt/pme/
Name of contact person: Carlos Ribeiro
e-mail: carlos.ribeiro@mail.aiportuense.pt
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Economics
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 12
Characteristics of provision: Training provision based on a mix of
on-line and off-line activities.
Name of institution or consortium: Pinelands High School.
URL: http://www.wcape.school.za/subject/CS/PHS/main.htm
Name of contact person: Pam Miller
E-mail contact person: pam@miller.wcape.school.za
Curriculum areas of courses using web: teaching the school subject
Computer Studies Standard Grade
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 3 outside the physical school interacting in co-operative
learning groups of 4 learners in each group, with students in the physical
school numbers in total 70.
Characteristics of provision: All learners work in groups of 4. Some
groups have all learners in the physical school, others learners outside.
THIS IS A PILOT PROJECT. I do not want to use the word 'web' courses as the
courses use web, email and verbal telephone communication, at present. Has
been going to 4 months.
Full instructions are/were sent to learners via email. Those learners able to access the web, in school offline or outside online, can get the instructions in HTML. Those learners in school whose hardware prevented them from reading the instructions in HTML could read it all in email. (This will change this week as all the messages are using up too much hard drive memory space so I will send all learners email telling them where to find the instructions on the web, for outside learners, on offline Netscape in class for those with good hardware, and as text files found on the school server for those with poor hardware).
Within the physical class we do not have enough terminals for the 37 and 30 learners in the two different Grade 11 classes. While one learner uses a poor computer to do something and another in the group uses a better computer to do something, the material is sent to whichever computer by email attachments in the class, not a disk when the learners are ready.
The outside learners send material they have found on the web to their inside partners via email. As the learners become more confident we will be moving onto more advanced features of the web. These are learners at school, Grades 11 at present, with limited computer background. The course is learner centred where they are the ones who set the speed and where a most important focus is communication with the partners, not me. As these young persons cannot type or communicate quickly enough by email, they are encouraged to telephone each other.
A factor in web teaching here is that we PAY A GREAT DEAL for our local telephone calls so the web teaching must take that into consideration.
Name of institution or consortium: CECENET – Instituto de
Técnicas Educativas;
URL: http://www.cece.es
Name of contact person: Carmen Magana
E-mail contact person: cmagana@cece.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Quality, Values, Education Technology
and Administration.
Number of courses: 4
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The CECENET is the first Spanish Web
program for non-university education. Its purpose is to provide the non-university
education world with all the services and information that satisfy its needs
and implements a more efficient administration of resources. The CECENET is
co-ordinated by the Instituto de Tecnicas Educativas that groups 46
federations across Spain. The methodology used is based on self-study at home,
classroom lectures, telephone and Internet tutoring. These courses are attended
by Directors and Trainers that work at the education centres.
Name of institution or consortium: UNED - Psychology Faculty -project
Foteumidis
URL: http://www.uned.es/proyectos/ing/Telementos.htm
Name of contact person: Elena del Campo
E-mail contact person: edelcampo@cu.uned.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Law, Economics and Psycology;
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 12
Characteristics of provision: This project has the objective to teach
disabled persons using mail, telephone, Internet, e-mail, connecting the computers
to the RDSI public line and receiving information via audio and video. The
FOTEUMIDIS project was designed to help people with deficiency or disability
learn and develop their knowledge without having to leave their home or workplace.
The disabled students that participated in the project belong to the study
centres placed in Cádiz(3), Toledo(3), Murcia(2), Terrasa(1), Las Palmas(1),
Mallorca(1) and Tenerife(1). The technologies used are: Personal Computers,
Multi-Videoconference using ISDN, Communications system and access to ISDN
network.
Name of institution or consortium: UNED - Escuela Universitária
de Informática - Infuned
URL: http://www.uned.es/proyectos/ing/Telematictraining.htm
Name of contact person: Joaquin Aranda
E-mail contact person: jaranda@dia.uned.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Artificial Intelligence, Electronic
Engineering, Electronics and Control, Mathematics and others.
Number of courses:
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The experimental plan INFUNED has the
objective of a massive use of new communication technologies as a teaching
support. This project allows the teacher, the tutor and the student to be
in permanent contact. Some of the communication channels used are: Personal
e-mail, distribution lists, news groups, interactive chats, and downloading
and uploading files.
Name of institution or consortium: UNED – Departamento de
Ingenieria Electrica, Electronica y de Controlo
URL: http://www.uned.es/proyectos/ing/demos.htm
Name of contact person: Juan Peire
E-mail contact person: jpeire@ieec.uned.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: all UNED courses
Number of courses:
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: Design and Development of a distributed
educational environment for distance teaching scenarios. The DEMOS project
seeks to increase the number, and quality, of all the possibilities to provide
administrative and academic support to UNED´s students. The professors responsible
for the project have pinned down three possible potential DEMO users: based-students,
based students with better means and centre-based students. Generally, the
DEMO project will function in the following way: It will have an information
and administration office. The users will find in this office an access authorisation,
general information about DEMOS and a detailed reference of the services available.
Having gone through the information and administration office, the student
can access several sections within the UNED, for example: Virtual Library,
Virtual Bookstore, Distributed Virtual Classroom. In the latter section
the student is connected on-line through computer terminals. This allows the
student to share applications, tools and material (text, programs, images,
audio and video). The student may also make videoconferences multi-point.
The teacher´s virtual office is also important because of the tele-tutoring
Student/teacher service. At last, the student can access the Coffee
Room where contacts with other students can be done developing discussion
groups, newsgroups via e-mail.
Name of Institution or Consortium: CEPADE - Universidad Politecnica
de Madrid
URL: http://www.cepade.es
Name of contact person: Ana Lopez
e-mail: anaibis@cepade.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Enterprises Administration
Number of courses: 200
Number of students: 1600
Characteristics of Provision: CEPADE is the Business School from the
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (U.P.M.) and is responsible for Master and
Specialization courses on Enterprises Administration at distance, using the
Internet. As support of the CEPADE Virtual Campus the FirtsClass application
is used, and virtual classrooms, and study rooms are created for each course
enabling the collaborative learning. The certification of CEPADE is provided
by U.P.M and the center is working on distance learning environments from
1972.
Name of Institution or Consortium: ICT - Instituto Català de
Tecnologia
URL: http://www.ictnet.es
Name of contact person: Maria Mirabete
e-mail: directora@psfd.ictnet.es
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Quality, Enterprises Management,
Environment, Production Technology, Energy, Health and Safety in the work
place, Information Technology
Number of courses using the web: 30
Number of students: 1500
Characteristics of Provision: The courses are provided via the web.
There is a digital training center that provides the students with information,
contents and tutoring.
Name of institution or consortium: Food Engineering, Lund Institute
of Technology, LU, SWEDEN
URL: http://anka.livstek.lth.se
Name of contact person: Inger Lindvall
E-mail contact person: inger.lindvall@livstek.lth.se
Curriculum areas of courses using web: IT-aided Distance Learning for
the Food Industry
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 15
Characteristics of provision: The course consist of 10 modules e.g. Food
Technology (3), Food Engineering (3), Nutrition, Food Microbiology, Food analyses
and Statistics. Most of the modules are given according to problem-based learning
via Internet. The cases are presented via Internet and for the meetings once
a week, we are using computer-based programs as Iparty and NetMeeting. For communication
teacher-student and student - student E-mail and the web are used. The students
are part-time students supposed to follow 4 modules per year. The students are
coming to Lund 3-5 times per semester for introductions, do laboratory work
and final examination.
Name of institution or consortium: National Institute for Distance
Education, Norrköping
URL: http://www.norrk.ssv.se
Name of contact person: Allan Westerdahl
E-mail contact person: allan.westerdahl@norrk.ssv.se
Curriculum areas of courses using web: All secondary level subjects
Number of courses: 30
Number of students: 1000
Characteristics of provision: We have focused on the need of fast communication
in distance education and therefore we are using conference systems in all courses.
Moreover we are producing web-based studyguides, sofar in two subjects.
Name of institution or consortium: NTI-Skolan
URL: http://www.nti.se
Name of contact person: Olof Ludvigsson
E-mail contact person: nti@mail.bip.net
Curriculum areas of courses using web:
Number of courses:
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Lund Virtual University
URL: http://lvu.lu.se
Name of contact person: Bengt Kjöllerström
E-mail contact person: Bengt.Kjollerstrom@citu.lu.se
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Most university areas
Number of courses: 80
Number of students: 6000
Characteristics of provision: LVU is under construction as a common project
for distance education at Lund university
Name of institution or consortium: Umeå Universitet, LITU
URL: http://www.lh.umu.se/~litu
Name of contact person: Fredrik Paulsson
E-mail contact person: fredrik.paulsson@educ.umu.se
Curriculum areas of courses using web: ICT and Education, Distance methodology
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: 300
Characteristics of provision:
Name of institution or consortium: Huddinge Agora
URL: http://www.huddinge.agora.se
Name of contact person: Rolf Carlsson
E-mail contact person: rolf.carlsson.uf@adm.huddinge.se
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Computer Science and DeskTop Publishing
Number of courses: 2
Number of students: 130
Characteristics of provision:
Objectives: In adult education teaching is often carried out on the same terms
and with the same methodology as when teaching teenage students. But adult students
have a different way of life and other needs than tee-nagers. Our motto: " Education
where you want it, when you want it and at your own pace " reflects our view
of how adult education should be implemented. Our goal is to offer our students
education on their own terms, with a flexible schedule.
Project description: During the last few years, the Computer Science programme at Huddinge municipal Adult Education has been confronted with two growing problems: * The number of applicants for the courses has steadily increased but the resources have remained constant. Foremost, it is the availability of computers that has been the problem * The number of course participants with computers at home has increased significantly to a present figure of about 40%. This has resulted in heterogeneous groups. The very different education needs of the participants have been difficult to satisfy.
Since 1986, I have been spoken and written about "The Third Generation Distance Education", so I reali-sed that the second problem was the solution to the first problem. If we could organise it so that course participants with computers at home used their own computers instead of occupying a space in the com-puter classroom, we would be able to provide a place for additional participants who do not have their own computers at home. Then, we would be able to accept a higher total number of applicants and also be able to create more homogeneous groups.
In order to achieve this, we required a system for electronic communication between the students and the course directors. We selected FirstClass from SoftArc which has become somewhat of a standard for this type of distance studies. In addition, it is also an inexpensive and easily administered system. All students communicate with the server via Internet. It was relatively easy for us to transform the "normal" Computer Science courses to distance studies. Ever since the objective-related grading system was introduced in Sweden, we have in these courses wor-ked with "give-in" assignments directly connected to objective-descriptions for each course section and grade level. They could easily be transformed to "send-in" assignments.
FirstClass is a Client / Server programme where, amongst others, the graphics is in the client which is stored in the participants' computer. This makes for very fast communication with the server - conside-rably faster than with a Web-based system. As I see it, the graphics also play a very significant pedagogic role. In the Huddinge Agora, I have tried to fully realize the metaphore "The Electronic House".
Parallell with the courses in Computer Science, there is also a course in DeskTop Publishing. In this cour-se, the participants learn how to use MS Publisher as well as various rules for good and acceptable typo-graphy, layout, handling of pictures, etc. This course is completely divided into theme-studies, periods of one week each.
All courses are concluded with a test in a computer classroom. This is necessary since I as a teacher can-not be absolutely sure who actually completed the submitted send-in assignments. Thus, the send-in as-signments are not directly as much a base for grading as it is a confirmation for the participant that they have reached the required objectives for a specific grade.
Name of institution or consortium: Virtual Campus of Middle East Technical
University
URL: http://idea.metu.edu.tr
Name of contact person:Veysi Isler
E-mail contact person: isler@ceng.metu.edu.tr
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information Technologies, Total
Quality Management and Mechanical Engineering
Number of courses: 8
Number of students:161
Characteristics of provision: - A Certificate Program on Information
Technology (IT) - 8 IT courses on WWW:
1) Introduction to Programming with Java
2) Computer Systems and Architecture
3) Data Structures and Algorithms with C++
4) Operating Systems with Unix
5) Software Engineering
6) Computer Networks
7) Data Base Management Systems
8) Software Development Project
- These 8 courses are offered in 4 semesters. - 2 courses are offered in each semester lasting for each 12 weeks. - At the end of each semester, students come to the campus to attend face-to-face classes and exams. - A student must be succesful in the exams to get the certificate. - The web site also contains some clubs and useful pages. - Two other courses are planned to be offered soon: 1) Total Quality Management 2) Unusual Manufacturing
Name of institution or consortium: Abacus Learning Systems
URL: http://www.abacus-uk.co.uk
Name of contact person: Gerry Prendergast
E-mail contact person: learning@abacus-uk.com
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Online training courses
Number of courses: 4
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: Training is mainly delivered 'virtually'
in the Abacus Virtual College through the medium of the learner's computer connected
to a 'virtual classroom' by a telephone line. Products and services offered
by Abacus Learning Systems are:online training courses in the Abacus Virtual
College, consultancy to help organisations understand the concepts and set up
their own OnLine Learning and networking systems, rent space in the Abacus Virtual
College, and sales of FirstClass conferencing software.
Name of institution or consortium: Eloquence
URL: http://www.elok.com
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person: c.ruinat@elok.com
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Language teaching
Number of courses: 1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: Eloquence provides French Language training
using distance learning methods. La Connexion Française is a French language
course made up of 24 lessons and takes place entirely on the World Wide Web.
Over 6,000 sound clips, 500 full colour photographs, and searchable dictionary
of over 4,000 commonly used words and phrases are available to students. The
technology allows Eloquence to remain in constant contact with its students.
One to one support is provided based upon an individual student's requirements
and level of understanding. Students may enrol at anytime.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Exeter
URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/tnp/
Name of contact person: Niki Davis
E-mail contact person: telematics@exeter.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Library: Telematics for Librarians;
Education and Business; Masters in Education; Astronomy
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: about 50
Characteristics of provision: Each curriculum area has an autonomous
programme and uses the Web in different ways. For example, the astronomy course:
The Nine Planets is a collection of information about the Solar System intended
for a general audience with little technical background. The document consists
of about 90 WWW "pages", one page for each major body in the Solar
System.
Name of institution or consortium: Department of Adult and Continuing
Education, University of Glasgow
URL: http://www.ad ultedu.gla.ac.uk/public/overview.html
Name of contact person: Norman Gray
E-mail contact person: norman@astro.gla.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Scottish Literature, Popular Physics
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 30
Characteristics of provision: The course are at present a small component
of the Adult Education Department's outreach provision, but are likely to form
part of a broader institutional strategy.
The courses are aimed at students with minimal access to technology, and so use only relatively standard internet tools: email, the web, and a MOO. Course materials and students' seminar papers are distributed through the web, and these are discussed in the (archived) email discussion forum, and, less formally, in the MOO.
The courses are being formally evaluated at present, and will be expanded in number and scope in future.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Hull
URL: http://www.hull.ac.uk/merlin/
Name of contact person: Debra Marsh
E-mail contact person: d.a.marsh@ifl.hull.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: English as a Foreign Language,
Nursing Studies, Drug Addiction Counselling
Number of courses: 4
Number of students: 0
Characteristics of provision: Courses to be launched later this year
using the web-based Merlin learning environment include two 10 credit foundation
modules in EFL: English for Business, and English for Communication - the first
courses to being in April. Nursing and Drug Addiction open and distance courses
supported by Merlin are planned for launch in the autumn.
The Merlin system is designed to support group-based, tutor-supported learning at a distance by providing a set of communicaiton tools and tailorable resources within a single, integrated environment accessible via the World Wide Web.
Applications in other discipline areas are also being explored.
Name of institution or consortium: Centre for Studies in Advanced Learning
Technologies, Lancaster University
URL: http://ww w.lancs.ac.uk/users/edres/courses/NOL/NOL.htm
Name of contact person: Alice Jesmont
E-mail contact person: A.Jesmont@lancaster.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information and Communications
Technology (ICT)
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 25
Characteristics of provision: The Networked Open Learning Course is designed
to support people wishing to develop their skills and knowledge in the development
and use of ICT to support open learning. It is intended for ongoing professional
development, and is based around a set of linked, progressive themes; a library
of learning resources; individual and group-based tasks and activities; use
of web-based conferencing for tutor-learner support and learner-learner collaboration;
and exchange of personal knowledge, experience and skills. The course lasts
12 weeks and requires approximately 120 hours of study time.
Name of institution or consortium: Lancaster University
URL:
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/edres/Courses/Postgraduate/altprog/altpro1.htm
Name of contact person: Alice Jesmont
E-mail contact person: A.Jesmont@lancaster.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Advanced Learning Technology
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 30
Characteristics of provision: The ALT Programme offers a professional
qualification in the area of Advanced Learning Technology (ALT). The programme
aims to support the acquisition and extension of skills needed to design, produce,
use and evaluate IT-based learning resources. The structure is modular, designed
for part-time study, blending home or work-based independent study with short
residential periods. Tutorial support is provided through computer-mediated
communication using Lotus Notes.
Name of institution or consortium: Leeds Metropolitan University
URL: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/staffsup/eds.htm
Name of contact person: Dennis L.James
E-mail contact person: d.james@lmu.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Educational Development/Staff
Development
Number of courses: 12
Number of students: 8
Characteristics of provision: New provision - trial phase.
These are contracted courses with tutorial interaction, using Web-based resources/exercises and email.
Name of institution or consortium: Centre for Labour Market Studies,
University of Leicester
URL: http://www.clms.le.ac.uk/
Name of contact person: Margaret Black
E-mail contact person: mb19@le.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Training, Human Resource Management,
Performance Management
Number of courses: 6
Number of students: 1000
Characteristics of provision: The Centre offers three Masters courses,
two Diploma courses and one Certificate course by distance learning. Approximately
1000 students are enrolled on these courses in 30 different countries. The Web
is used to provide resources and support students through on-line conferencing.
Extensive use is made of e-mail for submission of assignments and support of
students.
Name of institution or consortium Birkbeck College, University of London
URL: http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html
Name of contact person: David Moss
E-mail contact person: d.moss@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Biology
Number of courses:1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: The Advanced Certificate in the Principles
of Protein Structure using the Internet, is a tutor-assisted, university-level,
accredited course. The course exploits modern developments in communications,
which means that students from any country may study the coure at home, at work
or in a university. This course is of nine months duration, is of final year
undergraduate standard and successfull students receive the award of an Institution
Certificate. The only equipment required by the student is a standard PC or
workstation and an Internet connection. Students study text, interact with images
of molecular models, use databases, participate in tutorials, all using the
World Wide Web technology of the Internet.
Name of institution or consortium: Institute of Education, University
of London
URL: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/lie/course1.htm
Name of contact person: Sarah James
E-mail contact person: s.james@ioe.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Applied linguistics and ESOL
Number of courses: Master's degree consisting of 4 or 5 modules + supervised
Report or Dissertation.
Number of students: 25-30 per cohort, several cohorts running simultaneously
worldwide.
Characteristics of provision: Degree is 2 years part-time with one optionally
times period in London. Current fee for whole degree is £4500 (subject
to annual review) payable in instalments.
Entry requirements: a good UK honours degree (or overseas equivalent) and teaching experience. A qualifying route exists for candidates with qualifications below degree level who have teaching experience.
Course provides video lectures and readings mailed out, weekly tasks and discussions online by email with fellow students and tutors, termly assessment.
Name of institution or consortium: Institute of Education, University
of London
URL: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/lie/course5.htm
Name of contact person: Sarah James
E-mail contact person: s.james@ioe.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Pedagogy of online education and
use of internet.
Number of courses: Certificate consisting of 4 taught modules + short
essay.
Number of students: 50 per cohort worldwide.
Characteristics of provision: Certificate is 20 weeks part-time, with
one optional day in London. Current fee is £490 for individuals from educational
institutions and £590 for all other candidates (subject to annual review).
Entry requirements: degree and teaching experience.
The course gives the normal academic advantages of investigating in depth both computer conferencing and online education and training. Crucially, it offers the experience of being an online student and thus the opportunity to observe the benefits and problems of course design by the new medium. Its direct benefit consists in the process of taking part. It also offers access to a learning community of peers who have a wide range of expertise.
Name of institution or consortium: Centre for English Language Studies
in Education (CELSE), University of Manchester
URL: http://www.man.ac.uk/CELSE
Name of contact person: Gary Motteram
E-mail contact person: CELSE@man.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Educational Technology in English
Language Teaching
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 50
Characteristics of provision: We make use of the internet in a number
of different ways. We use email, our own course specific lists, a Web-based
conferencing system called Facilitate.Com and MOOs. We also make use of the
Web to post up course related materials and to help to develop the distance
learning community.
Name of institution or consortium: Napier University
URL: http://caxton.pmpc.napier.ac.uk
Name of contact person: David Craig
E-mail contact person: d.craig@napier.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Librarianship, Information Science
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 50
Characteristics of provision: Currently the WWW is being used as 'added-value'
for distance learners in the HNC in Library and Information Science.
Tools currently being evaluated at WebCT and TopClass.
Documentation is prepared as HTML and Acrobat PDF formats. WebCT offers email, bulletin board, chat, quizes and student tracking facilities.
Name of institution or consortium: The UK Open University
URL: http://www.open.ac.uk
Name of contact person: Robin Mason
E-mail contact person: r.d.mason@open.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Information technology, Open and
distance learning, Introduction to computing
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: 7000
Characteristics of provision: The Open University is a dedicated distance
teaching institution with students across Europe and in some cases even worldwide.
Its uses the Internet in a range of ways depending on the nature and level of
the course. Nearly 40,000 students use computer conferencing on courses across
most disciplines in the University for tutorial support, self help groups and
general networking. Rather fewer courses use the Web and those which do (e.g.
a large introductory computing course, another introductory Information Technology
course, and several courses in the Open Business School) use it as an additional
course resource, rather than the primary content delivery medium. One course
- the second year of the Masters in Open and Distance Education P uses the Web
extensively. Combined with a Web conferencing system, this course is based on
collaborative activities, online assignments and Web resources. The Institute
of Educational Technology which runs the course also provides short online train-the-trainer
courses, using the Web as the primary delivery medium for subjects such as the
educational use of multimedia, the Web and computer conferencing. Further details
are available at www-iet.open.ac.uk
Name of institution or consortium: University of Stirling and Glasgow
Caledonian University
URL: http://annick.stir.ac.uk/mll/
Name of contact person: Roy Canning
E-mail contact person: roy.canning@stir.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Education
Number of courses: 1
Number of students: 30
Characteristics of provision: The MSc in Lifelong Learning is a joint
programme offered by the University of Stirling and Glasgow Caledonian University.
It is designed as a full WEB-based accredited programme supported by FirstClass
computer conferencing. It is marketed internationally in association with other
Universities around the world. The first in-take was February 1998. Students
taking the programme are postgraduate, in paid employment and seeking continuing
professional development.
Name of institution or consortium: University of Oxford - Department
for Continuing Education
URL: http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk
Name of contact person: Jonathan Darby
E-mail contact person: jonathan.darby@conted.ox.ac.uk
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Computing, Local History, Immunology
Number of courses: 3
Number of students: about 100
Characteristics of provision: The computing course is a hybrid in that
some of the course is delivered through two face-to-face summer schools whilst
the rest is on the web. The other two courses are entirely web based and make
significant use of Real Presenter for audio lectures with PowerPoint slides.
Two tutors are allocated to each group of 12 students.
Name of institution or consortium: Bellevue Community College
URL: http://distance-ed.bcc.ctc.edu/
Name of contact person: Graham Haslam
E-mail contact person: ghaslam@bcc.ctc.edu
Curriculum areas of courses using web:Communication, History, Media,
Sociology
Number of courses: 9
Number of students: 100+
Characteristics of provision: Most courses are web-based pages with email
interaction with the instructor and web-conferencing with the instructor and/or
other participants in the course.
Name of institution or consortium: Brigham University
URL: http://coned.byu.edu/is/index.html
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person: indstudy@byu.edu
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Accounting, Arts, Literature,
Management, Humanities, Political Science, Religion, Mathematics, Social Sciences
Number of courses: 26
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: 18 University and 7 High School and one
personal enrichment courses are offered. All courses are web-based. Once registered,
participants also receive a CD-ROM with multimedia resources for the particular
course, the course instructor also guides the participants to other course-related
websites and there is a bulletin board for discussion. All assignments (except
the exam) can be completed online and participants have access to BYU's Independent
Study's GradeCheck system which allows participants to check their grades and
progress.
Name of institution or consortium: California Distance Learning Project,
Lifelong Learning Online
URL: http://www.otan.dni.us/cdlp/lllo/home.html
Name of contact person: Michael Babayco
E-mail contact person: mbabayco@otan.dni.us
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Community Education
Number of courses: 28
Number of students: Number of students - Not applicable as the courses
are on an open web site
Characteristics of provision: Web-based courses aimed at the general
public. Courses range from Children and Alcohol Abuse, Crime, to Welfare to
Work. All courses include multiple choice questions/activities and answers
Name of institution or consortium: California State University at Dominguez
Hills
URL: http://www.csudh.edu/dominguezonline/donet.htm
Name of contact person:
E-mail contact person: dhonline@csudh.edu
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Communication, Humanities, Technology,
Management
Number of courses: 13
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: Certificate, undergraduate and postgraduate
level courses are offered. Internet classes are conducted entirely on the WWW.
Online activities include assignments, research, class discussion, student-instructor
communcation, online "field trips" and guest speakers.
Name of institution or consortium: California State University, Northridge
URL: http://www.csun.edu/~vca ct00g/acct.html
Name of contact person: Professon Donald L. Raun
E-mail contact person: draun@juno.com
Curriculum areas of courses using web: Accounting
Number of courses: 1
Number of students:
Characteristics of provision: This is a complete course on the Internet
offered by: California State University, Northridge.
Name of institution or consortium: CyberCorp Inc.
URL: