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View the multimedia tutorials that Professor Rifkin has created for her students
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Online Student Orientation for E-learning Professor Sharon Rifkin, Professor of Social and Behavioral Science and Education from the Samuels Campus and the Jan Cummings Endowed Teaching Chair in Critical Thinking for 2005, has developed a student-centered approach in understanding the WebCT course management system. Professor Rifkin requires all of her students enrolled in her Introduction to Healthful Living (HSC 1101) course to complete an online tutorial. Students complete a variety of activities focusing on WebCT components before they are allowed access to the learning activities in the course. The online student orientation uses a variety of teaching and learning strategies from simple text content to multimedia. All course material is conditional upon the students passing the orientation quiz with a 100%. Students are allowed to take the quiz an unlimited amount of times in order satisfy the completion requirement. "Having
my students complete my online orientation has really helped me as an
instructor by not taking up a lot of my time with "how to"questions,
but it has also helped the students in being better prepared to take
my online course. Having them self-learn from the very beginning of
the course really sets a standard or mode of how e-learning should be
done."
To begin the online orientation, students click on the Online Orientation button where they are taken to the orientation modules. Students then follow the directions by viewing content and participating in the assigned activities:
As a special feature, Professor Rifkin has created a video tutorial of the Email Tool, the Discussion Tool, the Assignment Tool and the Quiz Tool. She used Camtasia to do this.
Professor Rifkin can be emailed at srifkin@broward.edu |
