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CIT INFOBITS        September 2003                No. 63                ISSN 
1521-9275

About INFOBITS

INFOBITS is an electronic service of The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
number of information and instructional technology sources
that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
dissemination to educators.

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How Much Time Does Online Teaching Take?
The Interactive Syllabus
DIY Online Teaching
Information Ecology Lecture Series
New Internet Scout Website
Recommended Reading

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HOW MUCH TIME DOES ONLINE TEACHING TAKE?

One of the perceived barriers to increased faculty involvement in
online instruction is that it involves more time than traditional
face-to-face courses. Belinda Davis Lazarus, Associate Professor of
Special Education in the School of Education at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn, conducted a study of three asynchronous online
courses to determine the amount of time needed to teach them. The
results of her study are reported in "Teaching Courses Online: How Much
Time Does It Take?" (JOURNAL OF ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNING NETWORKS, vol. 7,
issue 3, September 2003). Lazarus measured the amount of time required
to complete the following:(1) reading and responding to emails; (2)
reading, participating in, and grading 10 online discussions; and (3)
grading 15 assignments. The report of her findings is available online
at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/v7n3/v7n3_lazarus.asp.

The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) [ISSN 1092-8235]
is an electronic publication of The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). Current
and back issues are available at http://www.aln.org/publications/jaln/.

Sloan-C is a "consortium of institutions and organizations committed to
quality online education" and is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation. For more information, see http://www.aln.org/.

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THE INTERACTIVE SYLLABUS

"There is nothing inherently 'sizzling' about the syllabus, and since
it structures the course, it seems a poor candidate for innovation." In
"The Interactive Syllabus: A Resource-based, Constructivist Approach To
Learning" (THE TECHNOLOGY SOURCE, July/August 2003), Sylvie L. F.
Richards proposes to remedy this situation. Richards, Multimedia
Designer/Developer for Academic Information Technologies at Brooklyn
College, City University of New York, defines the interactive syllabus
as "a learner-manipulated environment in which concepts are presented
in different ways and at different times, resulting in multiple and
adaptive interpretations necessary for knowledge acquisition." Drawing
on her experience training Brooklyn College faculty, she explains how
to construct interactive syllabi. The article is online at
http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1017.

The Technology Source [ISSN 1532-0030] is a free, peer-reviewed
bimonthly periodical published by the Michigan Virtual University, 3101
Technology Parkway, Suite G, Lansing, MI 48910 USA; tel: 517-336-7733;
fax: 517-336-7787; email: mivu@xxxxxxxx; Web: http://www.mivu.org/
Current and back issues of The Technology Source are available at
http://ts.mivu.org/.

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DIY ONLINE TEACHING

In "Rolling Your Own: Online Without an LMS [Learning Management
System]" (SIDEBARS, September 2003) Bob Byrne, technical liaison at the
British Columbia Institute of Technology's Centre for Distributed
Learning, shows how small organizations offering fewer programs and
courses could offer online classes using free or low-cost tools. As a
minimum, Byrne suggests providing a website for course content and
communication tools (email, discussion, and chat) for
instructor/student interaction. The article, which includes links to
some of the tools, is available online at
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/03september/inside-out-6.htm.

SideBars is distributed by email and on the Web and is published by the
Learning Resources Unit of the British Columbia Institute of Technology
[http://www.lru.bcit.ca/] to provide "useful information and news items
for instructors, course developers, educational technologists and
anyone else who has an interest in distributed learning in its various
manifestations." For more information, contact the editors at email:
sidebars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subscription information:
http://online.bcit.ca/sidebars/subcribe.html.


The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Information
Technology Services also offers some free tools that institutions can
use for online instruction. The Share Carolina program, hosted by the
ITS Center for Instructional Technology, shares code with other
academic institutions and non-profit organizations for instructional
Internet development tools. Share Carolina tools include code that you
can install on your campus server to run discussion forums, build web
pages, and create forms and quizzes. You can download Share Carolina
code at http://www.unc.edu/cit/sharecarolina/. Please note: due to
limited resources, UNC-Chapel Hill cannot provide technical support in
the installation or use of these tools.

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INFORMATION ECOLOGY LECTURE SERIES

In 2003-2004, the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke
University is sponsoring an interdisciplinary lecture series on "The
Information Ecology." This series will feature presentations by
scholars from Duke and around the country on intellectual property and
related areas - such as innovation economics, Internet and
communications policy, cyberlaw, genomics, and a variety of other
subjects. Through these events, the Center hopes to build connections
between scholars across disciplines and between universities. The
lectures are open to all.

All lectures are to be webcast (for up to 60 simultaneous viewers) so
that you can watch a lecture over the Internet from your desktop.
Webcasts will also be archived for later viewing. Fall semester
lectures include:

November 10
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center

November 14
Professor Wesley Cohen of the Fuqua School of Business: "Patents: Their
Effectiveness and Role"

November 21
Professor William W. Fisher III of Harvard Law School: "Alternative
Compensation Systems for Digital Entertainment"

More lectures will scheduled for the Spring semester. For details on
these lectures and their time and place, see
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/events.html#lecture.

The Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School is the
first university center in the world devoted to the public domain, the
realm of material -- ideas, images, sounds, discoveries, facts, texts
-- that is unprotected by intellectual property rights and free for all
to use or build upon. For more information, go to
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/.

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NEW INTERNET SCOUT WEBSITE

The Internet Scout Project has a new, redesigned website at
http://scout.wisc.edu/. Since 1994, the Scout Project, located at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, has focused on "developing better
tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online
information and metadata." The Project publishes THE SCOUT REPORT, a
weekly publication for educators, librarians, and researchers.

The Internet Scout Project is part of the National Science Foundation's
National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Project. NSDL aims to be the
largest science, technology, engineering, and math digital library ever
created. For more information about NSDL link to http://www.nsdl.org/.

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RECOMMENDED READING

"Recommended Reading" lists items that have been recommended to me or
that Infobits readers have found particularly interesting and/or
useful, including books, articles, and websites published by Infobits
subscribers. Send your recommendations to carolyn_kotlas@xxxxxxx for
possible inclusion in this column.

"The Trouble with Out-of-the-Box Thinking"
An interview with Andrew Hargadon on continuity and its critical role
in the innovation process
Ubiquity: An ACM IT Magazine and Forum, vol. 4, issue 30, September
23-29, 2003
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v4i30_hargadon.html

"Pushing people harder to think out of the box doesn't work. Many of
the revolutionary ideas in the technologies and arts don't come from
the person who solves the problem by thinking out of their box. It
comes from the person who has seen the right solution already somewhere
else -- who has other boxes to think in."

Hargadon is Associate Professor of Technology Management at the
Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis, and
Director of Technology Management programs. He is author of HOW
BREAKTHROUGHS HAPPEN: THE SURPRISING TRUTH ABOUT HOW COMPANIES INNOVATE
(Harvard Business School Press, 2003; ISBN: 1578519047).

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