WebCT Workshop

Welcome

Agenda

Introduction (Colin Lai) WebCT course development (Joe

Poon) Demo

Web-based Course Development

Speaker: Colin LaiActing Chief of Computer Service Center

Web-Based Teaching

Growing trend for universities in adopting web-based teaching

Supplement to lecture-based courses

Development of distance education program

Advantages of Web-based Teaching

Academic space, time interactivity bet.

• teacher/student• student/student

availability (7x24) creativity progress checking

Administration management cost effectiveness development of new

programs distance education

What is WebCT?

WebCT is a tool to build web-based courses (education environment). • http://about.webct.com/prod/index_frameset.html

Developed by Murray Goldberg at the University of British Columbia • http://www.webct.com/otl/viewpage?name=otl_murray_welcome

Why WebCT?

Selection Criteria• most popular

• 1,500 colleges and universities• 39,000 instructors, 147,000 courses• 6 million students in 55 countries• continual support and growth

• economical• various pricing scheme• http://about.webct.com/prod/index_frameset.html

Why WebCT? - 2

Ease of use Can adopt developed web-based

courses in many disciplines

WebCT Deployment

MPI current has 3200 licenses Pilot program license allocation:

• CSC (2,200 - all students & staff)• others (1000)• assuming 30 students per subject• allow 34 subjects to develop web-

based courses

Deployment Strategy

Pilot program• invite CSC staff, multimedia lab. staff,

and teachers to develop courseware and test the system

• forms a WebCT User Society Technology Transfer

• help other teachers who will join the development work

CSC Support

Current WebCT Administrator (Joe Poon, jpci@ipm.edu.mo)• course/teacher account setup• development of demo course• interface program with SIGA

Technical Support• servers installation, database support,

single login

Training

WebCT documentation Peer training MPI WebCT User Society

Workshops Setting up a MPI WebCT developer

course (bulletin board, chat, white board)

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