Before you begin any initiative, it is important that you have the support of other faculty and the IT support group, if you have one. Any type of change will be initially met with some type of resistance. The best way to combat this resistance and increase chances for success is to identify and develop a group that I refer to as the “early adopters.”
With the right tools, online courses can be as effective as traditional face-to-face courses. I designed an online course that would teach instructors how to integrate multimedia into their own – virtual or traditional – courses.
We learn both by seeing and doing and a great way to cater to this is to create screen capture videos for your demonstrations or training. These capture videos are easy to create, can serve multiple audiences at once, and allow users to watch, pause, and stop the video as needed. The creation of the video is in real time so the time constraints are minimal.
The ROML Sakai Pilot has transitioned all introductory Spanish courses to the multi-section friendly Sakai interface. Several other languages, such as French, German, and Italian, have joined in the pilot.
With a large number of instructors and even larger population of students, it was vital that creating videos be as easy as possible. If instructors were able to create videos with minimal effort, they would be more receptive to using a streaming video solution. As part of this video project, the Department of Romance Languages [...]
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