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USA OLL
Newsletter for the week of 1/23 Topics: 1. Are your students ready for online learning? 2. Current OLL Workshops 3.
Shareware Basket: 4. Conference Corner: 5. Distance Education News: 6. Comments ________________________________________ 1. Are your students ready for online learning? ________________________________________ For students to succeed in online learning, they need to be prepared for the personal and technological challenges in online learning. There are a number of surveys and inventories available online, which can help determine student’s readiness for online learning. Do they have the necessary computer skills, and are they prepared to regulate their individual class and study time? Look over some of the following inventories that are used to assess readiness of distance learners: http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/instruct/distlearn/techsurvey.html http://www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/instruct/distlearn/acadsurvey.html http://www.pbs.org/als/college/index.html http://illinois.online.uillinois.edu/IONresources/onlineoverview/selfeval.html _________________________________________ 2. Current OLL Workshops _____________________________________________ January 26,
2001 1:00 – 3:30 p.m Microsoft PowerPoint for Online Learning Instructor:
Mohammed Islam, IDD doctoral assistant Location:
Rm. 3302, University Commons February 2,
2001 1:00 – 3:30 p.m Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint Instructor:
Cary Clark, IDD graduate assistant Location:
Rm. 3302, University Commons If you
would like to sign up for an OLL workshop, please
email Gail McLean at gmclean@usamail.usouthal.edu ____________________________________________
_____________________________________________ College is a database application for educational institutions. Modules cover students, grades, fees, courses, transportation, and other information. The basic interface contains push buttons for navigation to the major categories. Drill-down takes you to detailed forms and configuration options that let you build pick lists or specific information fields for your local needs. There is online help available, but only for some of the data forms; it doesn't offer a lot of detail. Similarly, there is brief sample data, but it doesn't illustrate all of the features such as sorting or filtering. The shareware lets you evaluate the program with up to fifty records. http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000SL6,.html _____________________________________________
_____________________________________________ The Education Technology 2001 conference continues the practice of bringing professionals from the education, industry, and government communities together to present information on their accomplishments in the areas of technology-based learning systems, management systems, research, and applications. The conference will focus on new technologies as well as existing applications, which have been successfully utilized for some years. As has been the case at SALT-sponsored conferences over the past 25 years, the attendees will participate in a meeting format, which encourages an atmosphere of collegial interchanges. http://www.salt.org/Ed_Conf/Conference/confmain.htm _____________________________________________ The Florida Heritage Collection is an ongoing project in cooperation with the 10 SUS libraries, said Dale Canelas, director of UF libraries. The collection includes materials representing Florida's history, culture, arts, literature, sciences and social sciences. "We tried to find something all 10 institutions could contribute to," Canelas said. "We tried to make a collection of solid, reliable information available to everyone." The collection holds a "broad appeal" for students who study the culture and history of Florida, Canelas said. The online posting of the Florida Heritage Collection makes hundreds of books and specialty items, such as family papers, maps and photographs of historic Florida, available to all. Materials in the collection include a 1918 pamphlet of salad recipes, a master's thesis on black physicians and a series of photographs of St. Augustine at the turn of the century. The project was designed to trace the history of Florida from prehistoric times to the present. "These collections hold an extraordinary picture of the growth and development of modern Florida," Canelas said. "Utilizing these collections, the libraries have begun to build a digital library that provides students a comprehensive view of that growth." The collection already includes 287 titles and is expected to grow by 15 titles a week. This is an ongoing collection and we're continuing to build it," said Erich Kesse, director of the Digital Library Center at the UF George A. Smathers Library. The SUS also is working on several future online library projects, Canelas said. These projects include a collection of children's literature, a series of letters and documents from the French Revolution and a collection of digitized newspapers from Latin America and the Caribbean. The type of materials that will be available online depend upon copyright laws, materials donated to the SUS and funding for these projects, Kesse said. The children's literature collection will be made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. By Ed Easton http://www.alligator.org/edit/issues/01-spring/010110/b08online.htm _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Note: The OLL Laboratory at the University of South
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