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CSU Faculty Development Institute

We're grateful you've chosen to view the material we posted for the CSU Faculty Development Institute on Tools, Templates, & Training: Using Online Technologies to Add Value to CSU Courses ("T3" for short). The workshop was held during the spring and summer of 1997. We've decided to maintain the material on the server for faculty to use after the workshop. Some of the links, such as to the listserve we used during the workshop, are no longer maintained. But we think you'll still be able to use the site to help construct your own courses or course material.

Many of us have been developing web pages to serve students in our classroom courses, learning by trial and error what works and what doesn't. But what if you want to decrease the number of course sessions held on campus, and create online modules that students can learn with at their own pace and on their own schedule from at home or their office?

Or, take it a step further, and suppose you want to create an entirely online course for, say, the budding CSU Virtual University? Yet you're still concerned with creating an active learning environment and a sense of community among your students and with you.

The T3 Institute is designed to provide you with some "best practices" for online teaching and learning, along with some tools and templates to implement those strategies. This workshop is, and probably will be for some time to come, in draft form. Please share your suggestions and ideas with us. Thanks in advance!

To proceed through this workshop, read the Workshop Information page carefully (print it out, if you're more comfortable reading paper than pixels), then complete the pre-workshop survey, and begin working through the five modules described below:

Course content focuses on 5 major topics:

1. Strategies and tactics for on-line teaching and learning: Overview and rationale for learning online; Using an web page editor and templates to create an instructor home page and a promotional, or "marketing" page for one of your courses.
   
   
2. Document preparation for on-line courses: Preparing graphics and media files for your web pages; Creating "topics" and other pages for your course.
   
   
3. On-line student learning activities: Engaging your students in active learning on your web site; Creating a WebQuest for your own course.
   
   
4. Growing an on-line learning community: Strategies for building learning communities; Job aids and to help you set up advanced features of email, newsgroups, and listservs.
   
   
5. Management of on-line course resources: CSU professors' reflections on their web-based courses along with strategies and suggestions for course development; Drafting your own plan for mentoring colleagues; Developing your own personal web-based portfolios.

The T3 Institute was developed at the Center for Learning, Instruction, and Performance Technology (CLIPT), at the Department of Educational Technology, at San Diego State University, with support from the CSU Instructional Technology Institute (ITI).

since 10.24.99