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Teaching with Technology at AUB: What’s New?
Dr. Rosângela Silva (ACC)
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New Opportunities for Large Scale Lectures
Using WebCT:
A Field Report
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Dr. Marcus
Marktanner (Dept. of Economics)
The traditional administration of
large-scale courses with paper, chalk , and blackboards has
increasingly become inefficient and educationally suboptimal
compared to modern teaching opportunities with PCs and the World
Wide Web. WebCT, for example, is able to reduce administrative
costs, create awareness for good citizenship skills, facilitate
better communication between students and faculty, and create
academic initiative beyond lectures and recitations. In this
presentation I would like to share the experiences of the AUB
Department of Economics with WebCT on a large scale and demonstrate
the many educational opportunities that WebCT provides for.
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WebCT in Teaching 2nd. Year Medical
Students
Dr. Ali Taher,
Aida Habbal, and Dr. Kamal Badr (AUH)
In accordance with the Department of
Internal Medicine objectives to use University facilities to improve
teaching and learning, the Undergraduate Program developed a WebCT
component to support the course “Introduction to Medicine”, taught
to Medicine II students. This is a multidisciplinary course
involving nearly 60 faculty members. It offers 9 credits and is
divided into eleven sections each covering an organ system. In this
presentation we will discuss the transition from the traditional to
the new teaching approach and course management using WebCT.
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The Case for Blended Learning
Dr. Iris Stovall (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Many universities are offering blended
courses, where Internet technologies play an important role. The
courses are not fully online, but retain a face-to-face component.
Blended learning is different from traditional lecture-based classes
that use Internet resources. This presentation will explore
definitions, models, and examples of blended courses; advantages to
the student, the instructor and the institution; and designing and
evaluating blended learning.
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Lessons Learned from Full and Hybrid Online
Teaching at AUS
Web
conferencing with Dr. Nidhal Guessoum (American University of Sharjah)
In this short presentation, I will review
several experiments I conducted both in teaching fully online and in
supplementing the usual on-ground lectures with an online dimension.
I will first describe the formats of teaching and the various online
modules and components that I used. I will emphasize the pedagogical
rationales adopted in each case and their implications on the
technical solutions/choices. I will present the reactions of the
students and the extent of the success/failure of each experiment. I
will conclude with some general recommendations based on the lessons
learned from my experiments.
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