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 Online Pedagogy & Best Practice Series Online
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Voice conveys more human personality and emotion than text. It can be interesting and inspiring to actually hear the professor making a key point, or to know what a guest sounds like. On the other hand, with audio or video the content must be experienced in real time rather than at the student's natural pace. The typical home access to the Internet today is much better at carrying audio, or audio plus slides, than video. Technologically audio can be accomplished using Real Media, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, or simple audio files. Instructors can upload QuickTime audio files (.mov) or Windows audio (.avi) files directly to Angel course content. Students will need the corresponding free plugin to view the file. It is also possible to work with IVS (Interactive Video Services, 432-3120) or vuDAT (Virtual University Design and Technology, 432-0711) to post "Real" streaming audio files on MSU streaming servers. Links to these files can then be placed in Angel course space. Structuring an online course in which students to sit back and listen for an hour is not how we are accustomed to using a computer. Long audio puts students into a passive learning mode. Instead of long lectures, compact, scripted, highly produced short chunks may be more conducive to online learning. Some students who were presented with short clips asked to have them strung together "so I can sit back away from my desk and listen" but most students preferred the short clips in TC 841. MSU Example: In KIN 465 Professor Gail Dummer posts an outline of lecture notes with short audio clip concept elaborations embedded in the outline.
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