Distance
Education Staff
Dr. Gary Walters, Associate Dean Phone: 439-6809 e-mail waltersg@etsu.edu
Mrs. Pat Westington, Programming Coordinator Phone: 439-7058 e-mail westingt@etsu.edu
Mr.
Rob Nelson, Video Production Coordinator II Phone:
439-8365 e-mail
nelsonr@etsu.edu
(all fiber optic classes)
Mrs. Judy Oaks, Executive Aide Phone: 439-6809 e-mail oaksj@etsu.edu
Mrs. Lynn
Shurtleff, Video Production Coordinator I Phone: 439-6457
e-mail
shurtlel@etsu.edu
(all ITFS and compressed video classes)
Mrs. Dia Smith, Operations Coordinator Phone: 439-6874 e-mail smithdl@etsu.edu
The Distance Education staff provides faculty with training before each semester. Distance Education staff hold individual meetings with the faculty prior to the semester to review all procedures and share useful information, from both the teacher and student perspectives, on the similarities and differences between instruction delivered through the traditional classroom and distance education. Based on faculty preferences, each course is individually designed to the use of the available classroom or Internet technology. The Distance Education/Learning technologies currently deployed are:
·
Interactive Television (ITV) compressed video
system – two-way video and audio
Campus classroom – 123 Sam Wilson
Off-campus receive rooms – Kingsport , Bristol, Greeneville
·
Interactive Television (ITV) fiber
optic system – two-way video and audio
Campus classrooms – 133 and 132 Brown Hall
Off-Campus fiber rooms – Kingsport (2), Bristol (2), Greeneville(2),
Mountain City
·
Interactive Television (ITV) compressed
video system – two-way audio and video, and videoconferencing to
rooms outside of our primary service region
Campus classroom – 138 Lamb Hall
· Telecourses – Video Checkout courses and Public Broadcast courses through WSJK, channel 2.
· Web-Based Courses - The Distance Education server [http://online.etsu.edu] – supports faculty development and deployment of web-based courses and web enhanced courses. Faculty can attend Blackboard Training Workshops offered by Academic Technology Support through the Office of Information Technology (http://www.etsu.edu/oit/ats/). Personal assistance with Blackboard and Internet course development may be obtained by contacting the Distance Education Department at 439-6809.
For faculty training, contact Mrs. Lynn Shurtleff (compressed video systems) at 439-6457 or Mr. Rob Nelson (fiber optic system) at 439-8365. For web based courses, contact Dr. Gary M. Walters.
For Interactive TV (ITV) courses, each instructor will become acquainted with the process of how programming and scheduling are developed; live, interactive teaching via ETSU's studios and facilities, and outreach services available. You will be provided with procedures and techniques that will enable you to teach over television with much the same ease that you use in your other classes. The handbook is only a guide and subject to change.
Although many of your students may be familiar with interactive television courses, some will be taking classes for the first time. Both students and faculty should understand that teaching ITV courses is unique and that these telecasts should not be compared with commercial television programs. Interactive television is unique because students at the off-campus sites can interact with the campus classroom live. Teachers and students interact with each other as in a regular classroom setting. Several factors are involved in teaching and learning via any form of distance education. For example, some factors include course planning, instructional design, instructional methods, differences and similarities between adult learners and traditional age college students, assignments, level of course, communication with students outside of class, and grading criteria. To make your transition from teaching in a regular classroom, faculty work with distance education staff to plan and develop a course. For more detailed information, go to the HELP page.
For more information about offering an ITV course, contact Pat Westington (westingt@etsu.edu) at 439-7058.
The Office of Distance Education provides support to faculty developing or offering Internet based courses and supplemental materials for interactive television classes, video checkout classes, and telecourses. In 1997 the University adopted an Internet course policy that describes and defines some procedures and several aspects of Internet course delivery at ETSU. Internet courses are scheduled each semester. Beginning, Summer Semester 1998, all sections of CSCI 1100, Using Information Technology, are delivered via the Internet. Students only meet for lab sections. Support services are available to help faculty create Internet courses.
An Internet course is defined to be a course in which students may
complete more than 50% through web access.
Distance Education servers. Distance Education provides server access to all faculty teaching distance education courses for purposes of developing and providing course enhancements to ITV and telecourses, as well as for the development and delivery on Internet courses. All DE servers run Frontpage server extensions. The university supports Respondus and it may be downloaded at http://de.etsu.edu/respondus .
Faculty Mentoring Center. The Office of Distance Education's Faculty Mentoring Center (FMC) provides support for ETSU faculty who are interested in developing online courses. With the combined efforts of the Internet Program Support Coordinator and the FMC Working Members, the FMC offers individual assistance for online course development, including working with faculty in using technology to improve instruction, especially in high enrolment courses, Blackboard support and training, multimedia development and training, and course content modification for online use. The FMC also offers two workstations for drop in visits on a first-come-first-served basis. Each workstation offers the use of a networked computer along with the typical ETSU supported software packages. Samples of online courses and multimedia products that have been created at ETSU may also be viewed at these workstations.
Faculty Assistance. The Office of Distance Education can provide a faculty assistant to work directly with the faculty member to transform an existing course to the Internet format. Also, course demonstration webs can be accessed to allow faculty to preview a web course format. These web course templates can be customized for the specific course.
Scheduling Internet based Courses. Courses that meet the definition of an Internet based course must be scheduled through the Office of Distance Education.
Internet Course Exams. Facilitators are scheduled at receive site locations to administer exams for the Internet courses when it is not possible for the student to take the exam on the main campus in Johnson City. All exam dates must be scheduled and confirmed with the student. The faculty member and student must contact the Office of Distance Education at least three days prior to the requested exam date. A faculty member must attach an Examination Form to each exam. The faculty member must provide instructions on the Examination Form on how the exam is to be administered. When exams have been completed, they are returned to the Office of Distance Education, and then forwarded to the faculty member. For more information, contact Mrs. Dia Smith at 439-6874.
For more information about offering an Internet course, contact Dr. Gary Walters at (waltersg@etsu.edu) or Pat Westington at (westingt@etsu.edu) 439-7058.
