Nobody on the T3 development team thinks that using online technologies to enhance teaching and learning is easy, at least right now. But CSU professors are working on it with some success. This is your opportunity to connect with two of your colleagues and understand their thinking--about the feasible as well as the possible.

Jack Logan, Professor of Music, and Brock Allen, Professor of Educational Technology, have been involved in hypermedia and online learning for decades. They've worked on multimedia and software development projects since the early '90's. Yet their online courses contrast on a number of dimensions that illuminate the new degrees of freedom that online learning brings to professors as well as students.

Logan, who for many years taught a very large undergraduate music appreciation course with a heavy emphasis on lectures and live performances, has focused on building a liberal arts course that can be taken anytime, anyplace, by a wide range of students at minimal cost. Students can use MUSIC 345 to satisfy general education requirements, and can begin and complete this online course any time, on an "open-entry, open-exit" basis. MUSIC 345 is a topic-oriented course, so Logan emphasizes the interconnectedness of concepts and the importance of anchoring abstractions to examples.

Allen teaches graduate students in a small, specialized master's program in educational product design. He thinks of his website for EDTEC 544 as way to bring convenience to students with busy work and family lives and as an opportunity to reach out to diverse students in other regions of California and beyond. EDTEC 544 is project-based, so Allen addresses the challenges of supporting a 16-week effort that may have more in common with engineering than with artistic expression.