Texas A&M University, College Station
Texas
Revised 5/30/02 by Lisa Chen
Welcome to this Web-based course offered by the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Karen L. Murphy is the instructor, and Lisa Chen is the teaching assistant. Units begin on Mondays and end on Sundays (June 3-July 5). Please email Lisa at lisachen@tamu.edu if you haven't yet informed Dr. M that you are enrolled in the class.
Instructor 1:
Karen L. Murphy, Ed.D., Associate Professor
Dept. of Educational Psychology
College of Education, Texas A&M University
622 Harrington Tower, MS 4225
College Station, TX 77843-4225
Contact:
Voice: (979) 845-0987 (direct)
(979) 845-1831 (departmental office)
Fax: (979) 862-1256
Email: kmurphy@tamu.edu
Office hours: By appointment
Instructor page: <http://disted.tamu.edu/>
Instructor 2:
Chun-Ying Lisa Chen, M.S., Graduate Assistant
College of Education, Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-4225
Contact:
Phone: (979) 862-9425
Email: lisachen@tamu.edu
Office hours: By appointment
[Other Classes] [EDTC 664 Course - password protected]
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Students who are unable to attend the class session either face-to-face in Harrington Tower or via TTVN in San Antonio, must log onto FirstClass and follow these instructions for accessing the session via streaming video:
Please note:
- The course requires at least intermediate Internet skills (e.g., email, email attachments, chats, FTP, Web searches) because it is Web-based.
- The course requires as much time and effort as, if not more than, a traditional course.
Course Description
This
course provides
an introduction to the management of instructional telecommunications
systems associated with educational and training programs. Issues include the
design, development, implementation and evaluation of those systems. Online
discussion, small group project-based work, and individual written assignments
are the major requirements of this course.
Regular graduate courses require approximately 45 hours of class time over the semester
plus 3 hours of preparation time for each hour of class time. Lab courses require
1 additional hour per week of lab time for each hour of class time (total = 225 hours).
This course is a lab course. You can expect to spend a total of 45 hours each week
for 5 weeks on this class. Because the course is Web-based, you can expect to spend
even more time on this course than you would on traditional courses.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
Suggested optional text for students working as school teachers or educators:
Brody, P. J. (1995). Technology planning and management handbook: A guide for school district educational technology leaders. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology.
Course Delivery
The course will be taught as a Web-based course. In addition, we will explore applications
of other delivery technologies.
You are expected to have regular access throughout the semester to the Internet so that you may access FirstClass and the Internet. This access may be obtained through a university student account, a school district connection, or a private service. All students are eligible for an account on the computer system at TAMU through the Computer Information Service. If you expect to have difficulty in connecting to the University computer system via modem, we strongly encourage you to subscribe to an Internet Service Provider that offers a PPP or SLIP connection.
You will have access to both the course website and the FirstClass
664 conferences with your own identical login ID and password. Your login ID is the
first letter of your first name followed by your last name (e.g., kmurphy for Karen
Murphy, lchen for Lisa Chen). Your password is the last 5 digits of your student
ID number. Use these when you're prompted for your ID and password on the course
website
and in FirstClass.
This course requires you to have access to the client version of FirstClass
from your own desktop. To use collaborative documents, you must do so from
the client version of FirstClass. You can access FirstClass from the Web for
more limited access. Follow the instructions for downloading and installing
FirstClass onto your computer at <http://fc.coe.tamu.edu>.
Contact FirstClass Help <firstclass@coe.tamu.edu>
for all technical difficulties or if you can't see the EDTC 664 Conferences
on your FirstClass desktop, once you have been authorized a FirstClass account.
[Other Classes] [EDTC 664 Course - password protected]
[ Dates/Times/Location | Course Description | Course Objectives | Texts | Course Delivery ]
