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| Introduction |
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| Section 1: Student Interaction Issues |
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Calming the protagonists in a flame war; facing the consequences of action taken |
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2. Do Students Really Want to Interact? |
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Working over a period of time to encourage distance education students to interact, using a variety of technologies |
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3. Pacific Mayday: Conviviality Overboard |
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Finding a surprising amount of antagonism between students from seemingly similar contexts |
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4. Do We Really Need an Online Discussion Group? |
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Charlotte Gunawardena, Jan Plass and Mark Salisbury |
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Designing an interactive online environment and discovering that the students don't use it |
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5. Houston, We Have a Problem! |
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Catherine McLoughlin and Joe Luca |
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Dealing with problems encountered by groups of students working in teams in an online environment |
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| Section 2: Teaching and Assessment Issues |
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6. Teaching Online... Reluctantly |
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Becoming reluctantly involved in online delivery and subsequently being perceived as a leader in the use of the technology |
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Stephanie Tarbin and Chris Trevitt |
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Overcoming student resistance to new methods of learning, involving the introduction of an online discussion group |
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Creating an equitable assessment system for group work in an international online course |
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9. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time |
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Introducing innovative tasks for students working online and encountering negative reactions |
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| Section 3: Planning and Development Issues |
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Leonie Rowan and Chris Bigum |
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Using scenario planning to map out an approach to teaching with videoconference technology |
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11. From Mouldy Disks to Online Fix |
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Vikki Ravaga, Jennifer Evans, Taaloga Faasalaina and Jo Osborne |
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Facing the pressures of teaching computing to a widely dispersed group of students with inadequate access to the required technology |
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12. 'I Have Some Pages Up!' |
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Jo Bruce and Ruth Goodall |
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Working 'one-to-one' to assist academic staff to create their own subject Web sites |
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13. The Reluctant Software Developers |
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Leonard Webster and David Murphy |
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Developing a software tool to encourage collaboration and interaction in an online environment |
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14. The Great Courseware Gamble |
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The trials and tribulations of a government-funded courseware development project |
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Lee Kar Tin and Wong Lai Fong |
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Implementing curriculum reform through the development of multimedia |
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| Section 4: Policy Issues |
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Developing appropriate skills in information and communication technologies while simultaneously satisfying governmental statutory requirements |
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17. Travelling Without Maps |
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Alison Littler and Jan Mahyuddin |
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Creating resource materials to support editing staff in upgrading their skills in online development |
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Julianne Moss, Mary Fearnley-Sander and Claire Hiller |
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Coping with the pressures of creating new and innovative learning environments in a short timescale; suffering the consequences of failing technology |
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19. The Tragedy of the Early Adopters |
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Mark Smithers and Christine Spratt |
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Taking the lead in technological advancement; coping with the effects of isolation and rejection of peers |
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| Conclusion |
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| Further Reading |
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| Index |
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