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Use of Technologies
in Teaching: Cornell Examples
Several Cornell
faculty and staff are experimenting with instructional technologies
to enhance their teaching methods. Some of them
maintain Web sites at departmental servers; some use the
CourseInfo system that is managed by the CIT's Academic
Technology Center. CourseInfo is a course management
software package that assists instructors in creating, organizing,
and managing course web sites. Most of these sites are limited to
registered students. If you would like to view the
Blackboard CourseInfo
catalog as a Guest User, login using
the username guest and password guest (all lower case)
when you are prompted for a name and password (for only certain
courses).
At Cornell, distributed learning programs can be roughly
grouped in five categories:
(1)
Technology-mediated residential instruction
CourseInfo
Examples:
ILR
342: Law of Health in the Workplace
HORT
400: Plant Propagation
SpiderBio215:
Spider Biology
SCAS
314, Tropical Cropping Systems
Examples of Web sites maintained on various instructional servers
at Cornell:
Microbiology
290/291: General Microbiology
Comm
410: Organizational Communication
Natural
Resources 210: Introductory Field Biology
LANAR
525: History of American Landscape Architecture
Historie
de France
(2)
Residential Cornell courses and programs (degree or certificate)
that can be extended to distance learners through the use of various
educational technologies
Example:
School
of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions
(3) Degree or certificate
Cornell programs from academic units that are specifically designed
for distance learners
Examples:
Food
Industry Management Distance Education Program
Cornell
Animal Science, Computer-Assisted Genetics Teaching Center
ILR
Global Education
Global
Seminar Series
(4)
Cornell distance learning programs from non-academic units
Examples:
Legal
Information Institute
CyberTower
Cornell
Lab of Ornithology, Home Study Course in Bird Biology
Digital
Imaging Tutorial, Cornell University Library
(5)
eCornell,
which targets executives and professionals through certificate programs
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