Activity 6: Web-based Units and Courses   Learn2.com contains some excellent examples of on-line tutorials. Explore two examples. What are the basic elements of a tutorial as defined by Learn2.com. Could you create a tutorial for something you teach? What elements do you think are missing from these online tutorials?   Explore a course at Oregon's CyberSchool. Do you think your students would be able to learn in their type of environment? Why or why not? What elements do you think need to be added to make it more effective?   Compare and contrast tools for distance learning.   Read a comparison of the basic tools for distance learning course development.   Examine other distance learning programs at the following links: About.com - Distance Learning High Schools Elementary Schools http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html http://www.wested.org/tie/dlrn/ http://teams.lacoe.edu/ http://www.uwex.edu/disted/definition.html http://www.utexas.edu/cee/dec/ http://www.doce.ufl.edu/SelfStudy/HighSchool/HighSchool.htm http://www.fhs.net/FHSWeb.nsf/Home?Open http://fhs.net/Counties.nsf/Courses?OpenView&Count=200 http://www.choice2000.org/ http://ehs.uen.org/ http://www.internet-high.com/default.asp http://class.unl.edu/final_web/index.html http://www.serc.org/ http://vhs.concord.org/home.htm http://vhs.ucsc.edu/vhs/casestudies.htm#vhs.nonca http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Distance_Learning/       Back to Sandcastles Menu Return to Eduscapes  Created by Annette Lamb, 7/00