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Meeting The Challenges Of International Online Teaching, Tim Murphy
Meeting The Challenges Of International Online Teaching, Tim Murphy
SIDLIT Conference Proceedings
Online courses serving international students present a number of distinct challenges. Instructors must address significant cultural differences, cope with the language barrier, and educate students about unfamiliar disciplinary standards. This presentation will demonstrate common technologies that are helpful in dealing with these challenges and discuss recent scholarship regarding other methods and tools that address the unique needs of the international online student. Attendees will also be invited to participate in a discussion of these issues.
Developing A Distance Learning Faculty Wiki, Shalin Hai-Jew
Developing A Distance Learning Faculty Wiki, Shalin Hai-Jew
SIDLIT Conference Proceedings
The presenter discusses how the collaborative learning tools called wikis can be utilized, created, and maintained for faculty who teach via distance-learning can maintain discourse.