1. WebCT Workshop Welcome

2. Agenda l Introduction (Colin Lai) l WebCT course development (Joe Poon) l Demo

3. Web-based Course Development Speaker: Colin Lai Acting Chief of Computer Service Center

4. Web-Based Teaching l Growing trend for universities in adopting web-based teaching l Supplement to lecture-based courses l Development of distance education program

5. Advantages of Web-based Teaching Academic l space, time l interactivity bet. teacher/student student/student l availability (7x24) l creativity l progress checking Administration l management l cost effectiveness l development of new programs l distance education

6. What is WebCT? l 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

7. Why WebCT? l 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

8. Why WebCT? - 2 l Ease of use l Can adopt developed web-based courses in many disciplines

9. WebCT Deployment l MPI current has 3200 licenses l 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

10. Deployment Strategy l Pilot program invite CSC staff, multimedia lab. staff, and teachers to develop courseware and test the system forms a WebCT User Society l Technology Transfer help other teachers who will join the development work

11. CSC Support l Current WebCT Administrator (Joe Poon, jpci@ipm.edu.mo) course/teacher account setup development of demo course interface program with SIGA l Technical Support servers installation, database support, single login

12. Training l WebCT documentation l Peer training l MPI WebCT User Society Workshops l Setting up a MPI WebCT developer course (bulletin board, chat, white board)

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