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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:10px;font-family:Arial;
font-style:italic;language:en-US'>Coordinator for Instructional Design</span></font></i></p>
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<img border=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 src="cid:image020.jpg@01C8FB8E.CC99ABD0"
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alt="The following tools are available for your use in the design, development and delivery of your online courses. Contact one of the Instructional Design Team members for training and/or assistance with any of these tools. Adobe Presenter (Breeze) Adobe Presenter allows you to create voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Upon publishing these presentations to the server, you are provided a web address (URL) which you may use to link to your Adobe Presenter session from within your online course. Some faculty are also using this tool to provide recorded reviews of submitted assignments and projects such as major research papers which are then shared with individual students. Respondus provides faculty opportunity to import exams in electronic format into eCollege. ClassLive Pro, powered by ClassLive Pro a tool available in eCollege online courses (01W, 02W, so forth) that provides opportunity for synchronous (real-time) faculty-student and student-student interaction. Faculty use ClassLive Pro for online instructional purposes such as virtual office hours, presentation of content materials, and student presentation of projects. The Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (READI) is a web-based tool designed to serve as an early warning device to identify students who may be deficient in the skills and attributes necessary for successful distance learning. READI indicates the degree to which an individual student possesses attributes, skills and knowledge that contribute to success in online learning, including: self-motivation; time-management skills; self-discipline; reading comprehension; persistence; ability to use a laptop, printer, software and the Internet; and typing speed and accuracy. "></td>
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<img border=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 src="cid:image021.jpg@01C8FB8E.CC99ABD0"
width=247 height=450 title="The following tools are availa..."
alt="The following tools are available for your use in the design, development and delivery of your online courses. Contact one of the Instructional Design Team members for training and/or assistance with any of these tools. Adobe Presenter (Breeze) Adobe Presenter allows you to create voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Upon publishing these presentations to the server, you are provided a web address (URL) which you may use to link to your Adobe Presenter session from within your online course. Some faculty are also using this tool to provide recorded reviews of submitted assignments and projects such as major research papers which are then shared with individual students. Respondus provides faculty opportunity to import exams in electronic format into eCollege. ClassLive Pro, powered by ClassLive Pro a tool available in eCollege online courses (01W, 02W, so forth) that provides opportunity for synchronous (real-time) faculty-student and student-student interaction. Faculty use ClassLive Pro for online instructional purposes such as virtual office hours, presentation of content materials, and student presentation of projects. The Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (READI) is a web-based tool designed to serve as an early warning device to identify students who may be deficient in the skills and attributes necessary for successful distance learning. READI indicates the degree to which an individual student possesses attributes, skills and knowledge that contribute to success in online learning, including: self-motivation; time-management skills; self-discipline; reading comprehension; persistence; ability to use a laptop, printer, software and the Internet; and typing speed and accuracy. "></td>
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width=249 height=42 title="The following tools are availa..."
alt="The following tools are available for your use in the design, development and delivery of your online courses. Contact one of the Instructional Design Team members for training and/or assistance with any of these tools. Adobe Presenter (Breeze) Adobe Presenter allows you to create voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Upon publishing these presentations to the server, you are provided a web address (URL) which you may use to link to your Adobe Presenter session from within your online course. Some faculty are also using this tool to provide recorded reviews of submitted assignments and projects such as major research papers which are then shared with individual students. Respondus provides faculty opportunity to import exams in electronic format into eCollege. ClassLive Pro, powered by ClassLive Pro a tool available in eCollege online courses (01W, 02W, so forth) that provides opportunity for synchronous (real-time) faculty-student and student-student interaction. Faculty use ClassLive Pro for online instructional purposes such as virtual office hours, presentation of content materials, and student presentation of projects. The Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (READI) is a web-based tool designed to serve as an early warning device to identify students who may be deficient in the skills and attributes necessary for successful distance learning. READI indicates the degree to which an individual student possesses attributes, skills and knowledge that contribute to success in online learning, including: self-motivation; time-management skills; self-discipline; reading comprehension; persistence; ability to use a laptop, printer, software and the Internet; and typing speed and accuracy. "></td>
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<img border=0 hspace=0 vspace=0 src="cid:image023.jpg@01C8FB8E.CC99ABD0"
width=247 height=309 title="The following tools are availa..."
alt="The following tools are available for your use in the design, development and delivery of your online courses. Contact one of the Instructional Design Team members for training and/or assistance with any of these tools. Adobe Presenter (Breeze) Adobe Presenter allows you to create voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Upon publishing these presentations to the server, you are provided a web address (URL) which you may use to link to your Adobe Presenter session from within your online course. Some faculty are also using this tool to provide recorded reviews of submitted assignments and projects such as major research papers which are then shared with individual students. Respondus provides faculty opportunity to import exams in electronic format into eCollege. ClassLive Pro, powered by ClassLive Pro a tool available in eCollege online courses (01W, 02W, so forth) that provides opportunity for synchronous (real-time) faculty-student and student-student interaction. Faculty use ClassLive Pro for online instructional purposes such as virtual office hours, presentation of content materials, and student presentation of projects. The Readiness for Education At a Distance Indicator (READI) is a web-based tool designed to serve as an early warning device to identify students who may be deficient in the skills and attributes necessary for successful distance learning. READI indicates the degree to which an individual student possesses attributes, skills and knowledge that contribute to success in online learning, including: self-motivation; time-management skills; self-discipline; reading comprehension; persistence; ability to use a laptop, printer, software and the Internet; and typing speed and accuracy. "></td>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><b><font size=3
color="#0033cc" face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:16px;font-family:
Arial;color:#0033CC;font-weight:bold;text-shadow:auto;language:en-US'>Fall 2008 Faculty Development Opportunities</span></font></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;language:en-US'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Plan to join us for one or more of these opportunities in the Fall 2008 term. Training sessions will be offered one-on-one, in small hands-on sessions in the Instructional Design Lab, and online in real time using ClassLive Pro. </span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>*Dates and times to be announced in upcoming issues of the Instructional Design Unit newsletter. </span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold;language:en-US'>Just in Time Sessions </span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;
font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>(One-on-One sessions at request of the instructor)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>eCollege components as requested by the instructor (discussions, linking con­tent, exams, etc)</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>Respondus</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>Introduction to .NExT - The next generation of eCollege</span></font></p>
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size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;
font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>eFaculty Live! Focus Sessions (i.e., Facilitating meaningful discussion forums, </span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;language:en-US'> effective instructor feedback, assessing student learning)</span></font></p>
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font-size:13px;language:x-none;color:black'>¨</span><span style='width:3px'> </span><font
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font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>Introduction to .NExT - The next generation of eCollege </span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><b><font size=3
color="#0033cc" face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:16px;font-family:
Arial;color:#0033CC;font-weight:bold;text-shadow:auto;language:en-US'>eCollege .NExT Migration</span></font></b></p>
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color="#0033cc" face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:16px;font-family:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>We have begun the process of migrating to the .NExT version of the eCollege Plat­form. A dozen online courses (01W, 02W…) were selected for the first stage of mi­gration for the Fall 2008 term in order to monitor the migration process closely. </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;
font-family:Arial;color:black;language:en-US'>Courses were selected based on one or more of the following criteria: </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;
font-family:Arial;language:en-US'>Vista user, MAC user, use of ClassLive Pro, courses representing a diversity of academic de­partments, use of a varied eCollege components (i.e. groups, doc sharing, exams, content), and instructor comfort and flexibility.</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Faculty new to Texas A&M University-Commerce, who are teaching a new online course, are being trained on .NExT rather than the existing version of eCollege, re­ferred to as the Legacy version.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
color:black;language:en-US'>The migration to .NExT will take place in stages over the 2008-2009 academic year. During the Fall 2008 and Spring 2008 terms, we will provide ‘Introduction to .NExT’ sessions in both face-to-face and online formats. Watch for dates and times for these sessions in upcoming issues of the Instructional Design Newsletter.</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
color:black;language:en-US'>We’ll continue to share the progress of the migration to .NExT with you through this newsletter.</span></font><font
size=2 color=red face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;
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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Charlotte Larkin, Ed.D.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Director of ITDE</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Julie McElhany, Ed.D.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Coordinator for Instructional Design</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Dean Aslinia, M.S.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin:0px'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>eLearning Support Specialist</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Alan Francis, M.B.A.</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
language:en-US'>Jess Lamphere, B.S.</span></font></p>
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face=Arial><span lang=en-US style='font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;
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font-style:italic;language:en-US'>**** A PDF version of this newsletter is avail­able at </span></font></i><a
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style='font-size:13px;color:#0033CC;text-decoration:underline;language:en-US'>.</span></font></a><font
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