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- Hi every one I am Javed. I am professor of Civil Engineering at Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio.
I am interested in Online teaching and learning and the use of Information communication technology(ICT) to enhance and augment the instructional process.
I am developing an online Master's program in Structural Engineering and currently working on developing online courses to support this program. I recently completed one online course in the area of Engineering Communications.
Information Technology Tools for Engineers
and currently I am porting an existing online course Engineering Computing to Ning at web address to add social aspects of learning to the course.
There are several other Engineering courses that are at various stages of development.
The course "Information Technology Tools for Engineers" is in the area of Information Communication Technology in which Engineering graduates learn to efficiently use the Internet for gathering, sharing and creating digital information. The course also covers topics related to social book marking,social media, and social networking along with the Internet tools for real time communication.
I started teaching the course with a class Yahoo group but moved it to the Ning in the middle of the semester because Yahoo group was becoming unreliable. So far Ning has worked well. There are few things I miss from Yahoo group such as a simple data base application where tabular information can be organized and I have compensated for it by using the MS Excel. Also, a quick poll/assessment set up. I have found few alternatives to compensate for that too. It is just that people have to leave Ning to use these two tools. It would have been nice if all the tools were available under the same interface.
I am practicing what I call "Open Professor" model. That is that the class is open to any interested visitors/guests. They can participate in the course discussion use all the course material. Only difference between them and the students who are enrolled for credit is that they decide their own level of participation and they will not receive any performance appraisal from me unless they request for it but they will not receive any course grade.
You are all welcomed to visit the course at
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During my M.S. research, I was fascinated by one of the topics called Cognitive Psychology. Read few books on it.
Also, I read your paper and other articles on neuroscience that you posted on your blogs. Feeling happy to be a part of your knowledge sharing network and your student.
Thanks
I agree about the restrictions in the LMS inasmuch as it can funnel staff down one pedagogical path. Unfortunately, that path often equates to the transmission model of teaching.
I think that the difficulty that many institutions have in using public sites is that the institutions are risk averse and they are not prepared to analyse and understand what the actual risk is compared to the perceived risk (see the Al Upton saga). I know that many people just go out and use whatever tools they see fit without bringing it to the attention of their administrators. I wonder at what point we need to make admins aware that users don't want to be locked into one model, to one LMS so that it becomes incumbent upon institutions to enable their systems to work with open systems? I found this document from Edinburgh University quite interesting in terms of using Web2.0 applications not hosted by the university.
Best wishes, Nigel
Thanks very much for the invite to have a look at this site and for your welcome message. I must apologise for being so tardy in replying.
It's quite impressive what you have put together. I'd be interested to know what resistance, if any, was encountered in using this model. Particularly institutional aversion to having students work on a public site and also the Open Professor model.
Best wishes, Nigel
I just wanted to ask you a question. I registered for your ENGR 6924 course for this summer. I saw on the YSU website that only 3 students registered by now. So, I was wondering if you are going to hold the course?
Thanks!
I didn't have a write up for part 2 of LU10 because the task never said to write anything up about it. I can add this if needed but I didn't know we had to do this.
Our link for our Zoho Project is:
http://engr6923group2.projects.zoho.com/login.do
When I am logged into the project I see you as a member with both your gmail account and yahoo account. I was confused what you were asking about earlier because you made the comment on an unrelated blog entry of mine.
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