Students can use their Personal Calendar to
schedule and organize learning Tasks.
By organizing
materials of their choice from the Media
Center within their Personal
Folder students can pursue their learning goals in a way
that suits their learning style.
Students can use their Personal Workspace to
organize course tasks and to create a portfolio of accomplishments.
The Calendar
can be edited to reflect schedules for learning activities and milestones,
enhancing the student’s ability to set priorities and manage activities.
The Course Map assists
students in finding course resources and activities they wish to utilize.
Search feature allows students to target resources
in the Media Center (Forum) or on the Discussion Board that
are relevant to their learning goals.
Instructors
can encourage students to use the Bookmarks
feature to keep a record of web sites of interest
to them.
Students can
use the Course
Map, Index,
and Search
features to locate materials within the course that are relevant to their
learning goals.
The instructor can describe a case or frame a problem in
an Assignment and charge students with independently researching the
issue, identifying a solution and supporting their conclusion.
Students can bookmark links to course pages that are of
interest to them in My Favorites.
The Course
Viewer’s resources-at-a-glance feature allows the learner
to utilize course materials in support of their own instructional goals.
The instructor can provide a wide range of informational
resources that students can choose to further their academic interests or
solve problems, such as Book lists, Course Documents, Resource
Center and External Links to Internet sites or databases.
The instructor can create a collection of resources in the
Course Room or the Media Center (Forum) that students can use
as they see fit to advance their knowledge or solve problems.
Students can develop their own research plan and use
resources in the Image Database, CD-ROM, Pages and URLs,
References, Course Content, or the WebCT website.
Instructors can use Course Information to describe
the goals and learning objectives, including a provision for student-defined
objectives or learning contracts.
Instructors can define open-ended Activities that
require students to identify problems and resources, and to develop their own
research plans.
Instructors
can include Assignments
that challenge students to identify an area of interest they wish to learn
about and to develop and use a research plan.
Students can collect pages from the Media Center
that are of specific interest to them and store them in their Personal
Folder (Forum).
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Source: The features listed here are from Blackboard version
5, Lotus LearningSpace version 5 and Forum version 3.6, Virtual U,
and WebCT version 3.1. Copyright: Blackboard is a product of Blackboard, Inc. Lotus LearningSpace and Forum are products of IBM Mindspan Solutions at IBM, Inc. Virtual U is a product of Virtual Learning Environments , Inc. WebCT is a product of WebCT, Inc. |
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