1. Good Teaching Principles WebCT Tools
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2. Good Teaching Principles
Chickering and Gamson’s Theory (1987)
1. Encourages faculty to student interaction
2. Encourages student to student interaction
3. Promotes active learning
4. Communicates high expectations
5. Facilitates time on task
6. Provides rich, rapid feedback
7. Respects diverse learning
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3. WebCT Tools
Chat
Discussions
Mail
Quiz
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4. Chat
Chat allows students to have real-time conversations with their instructor or other students.
Good Teaching Principles it supports:
1. Encourages faculty to student interaction 2. Encourages student to student interaction 3. Promotes active learning 6. Provides rich, rapid feedback 7. Respects diverse learning
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5. Discussions
Discussions is WebCT’s bulletin board feature. It allows the user to post, read, and search for messages.
Good Teaching Principles it supports:
1. Encourages faculty to student interaction 2. Encourages student to student interaction 3. Promotes active learning 6. Provides rich, rapid feedback 7. Respects diverse learning
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6. Mail
Mail is an internal system for WebCT and requires the user to access the WebCT account to read, send, and search their mails.
Good Teaching Principles it supports:
1. Encourages faculty to student interaction 2. Encourages student to student interaction
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7. Quiz
The quiz feature of WebCT allows designers to create quizzes with multiple choice, true/false, matching, fill-in-the-blank, and essay questions.
Good Teaching Principles it supports:
1. Encourages faculty-student interaction 3. Promotes active learning 4. Communicates high expectations 5. Facilitates time on task 6. Provides rich, rapid feedback
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