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Distance Learning Online Tools

In a continuing effort to improve student and teacher multimedia learning resources, the California Distance Learning Project (CDLP) has launched new online activities.

  • More than 20 adult schools are participating in a pilot test of online adult secondary education (ASE) courses. At issue is whether adult learners are good prospects for online learning and what characteristics help identify a self-directed online learner. The pilot test will continue at least through December 2004. More adult schools will be added soon. The test features the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) and over 40 online courses. Call or email Dennis Porter to preview several of the courses (510 - 644-0437 or porter_d@pacbell.net).

  • The CDLP is using an online resource called WebEx to provide the online ASE teacher and coordinator orientation and training. The tool provides real time Internet and audio links to structured training activities. These training activities can be offered anytime day or evening with participants logging in from their computer and calling a central conference phone number. The online ASE training is provided in small groups of eight or fewer participants. This flexible tool permits continuous and 'just-in-time training' as the pilot test is launched and matures.

  • The CDLP Web site, created initially in 1995, has undergone a major face lift. The wide range of literacy and ABE learning resources has been upgraded and standardized permitting easier student access to learning activities. Teacher and administrator resources are reorganized in an easy-to-use format. At a recent CDLP Distance Learning Symposium in Sacramento, both John Fleischman and Dennis Porter emphasized the importance of the Internet in providing robust, challenging learning opportunities for students and professional development activities for adult education teachers and administrators.

Contact: Dennis Porter, tel. 510-644-0437 or porter_d@pacbell.net.

 

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