1. Somewhere something has gone terribly terribly wrong!
Birth of the
Internet
Internet
comes to TAFE
Online
Modules
Web Enhanced
Classes

2. WHO AM I? ESL teacher (12 years) 3 years teaching ‘online’
Professional Development Officer (Online Learning) TAFE SA
eLearning Coordinator (Douglas Mawson Institute of Technology)

3. The Death of Online Education?
Not really, but it is being transformed
eLearning (includes ON CAMPUS web enhanced instruction)
3 day international conference and not one session on online education as it was initially conceived

4. Why the transformation?
The fully remote model
is expensive and time (and time = money) hungry to establish
requires high degree of technical skill from teachers and students
suits only highly motivated, independent learners
BUT IN THE CORPORATE WORLD:
they have the money
saves travel costs
eg Qantas College Online

5. The Dance with the Devil
Educational institutions have the content, the subject expertise, and want the technology
the corporate world has the money
so…do we dance with the devil?*
*Richard Katz, Educause

6. Is Online Education a Capitalist Plot??
“Online Education will be capital’s beach-head into education.”
- Kit Taylor (American Economics Professor, 1995)

7. The Youth Factor
Grange Primary
School

8. The Youth Factor
2004: the first generation of children who have never NOT known the Net reach high school
13-15 yr olds are the ‘most wired’ (the ‘baby boomer echoes’)

9. The Youth Factor
Research* on 7,000 children in USA and 1,000 in Canada revealed:
Most successful students online are the 13 –15 year old group.
78% have used the Internet to do their homework
60% have communicated with teachers online
*Forrester research (

10. Internet equalled WebCT
Internet
comes to TAFE

11. WebCT = web course tools
WebCT is course delivery software
WebCT has the largest percentage of the market worldwide of any course delivery tool
But……only 15% of all online courses in North America use a course delivery tool

12. What is possible in WebCT?
in principal, whatever you can do on the Internet, you can do in WebCT
if things don’t work in WebCT it is more likely to be TAFE firewalls (a necessary evil?)

13. What is possible in WebCT?
Online courses (remote, or in conjunction with face to face classes)
storage for course resources, assignments
Communication Hubs

14. WebCT Communication Hubs
WebCT - not just an online tool (and not everyone wants to go online)
great resource for f2f classes/workgroups
explosion across TAFE SA

15. WebCT Communication Hubs
WebCT was designed as an online course delivery tool
early adopters designed and delivered content
how can you use this with f2f classes?
What if you just use a homepage
for storing resources/documents?
plus communication tools and links?

16. WebCT Communication Hubs
And so the concept of hubs was born
Uses:
f2f delivery and distance delivery
professional development projects
workgroup communication across campuses

17. WebCT Communication Hubs
Face to face teaching
discussion and chat
class homepage
student pix and bios
a sense of place/a home on the Internet
links to resources

18. Multimedia in WebCT? Sound (music and voice) Flash animation
sophisticated chat
webcasts

19. What is possible in WebCT?
Can it take you to the tops of mountains?
NO!

20. What is possible in WebCT?
Can it give you the peace of a sunset?
NO!

21. What is possible in WebCT?
Can it give you the opportunity to provide an educational experience that is:
relevant?
current?
potentially inspiring?
learner focused?

22. What is possible in WebCT?
Can it give you the satisfaction of knowing that you have given students the skills they may need to take their place in the community as happy, successful people?

23. YES!!!

24. from smoke signals to the Internet
Man - the compulsive communicator
(David Attenborough)

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