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Considerations in Developing the Program Homepage
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Considerations in Devloping the Program Homepage
The following elements can be included in your program home page:
- Program & Instructor Information — Include such items as program topics to be covered, your office hours, textbook information, course objectives, and grading policies.
- Program Communication — Provide access to your e-mail, link to discussion groups that you have set up for learner-to-learner communication, and create forms that your learners can use to report problems or provide biographical information about themselves.
- Assignments and Tests — Distribute assignments and tests, provide for online completion or submission, and give solutions, hints, or samples of what you expect.
- Material covered— Make lecture notes and handouts available either as web pages or as downloadable files.
- Demonstrations, Animation, Video, Audio — Remember that these kinds of technology are more complex and will require your learners to have access to computers with sound and video cards.
- Reference Material — List materials in print and electronic form that supplement the textbook. To avoid copyright problems, electronic articles should either be written by you or be in the public domain (e.g., government documents or are already available on the WWW with author’s permission to distribute). In addition, provide links to other pages which cover information on the topic, similar programs that may also be available on WWW, your institution library, and other on-site resources that may help your student complete the program.
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