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Defining Your Web Teaching Objectives
Web Teaching at Dartmouth College

Before you roll up your sleeves and start designing Web pages, take the time to examine your motivation for creating a course Web site and to develop and refine your ideas within the context of what's possible in your situation. The Web can enhance learning or ease the burden of administering a course in many respects. Take time now to define your purpose for creating a course site — what challenges you are hoping to meet, what tasks you are hoping to simplify — and how you intend to combine the Web and the classroom. You may have embarked on this project because a colleague is having success with his or her course site and you hope to achieve similar results. Or maybe your institution is requiring that all courses have Web sites or your students are demanding Web access to course materials. Or perhaps you see the Web as a solution to a teaching challenge you've been wrestling with for years. Whatever the motive, now is the time to clarify your goals and objectives for using the Web in your curriculum....

  posted by Ray at 8/17/2002 12:44:00 PM permanent item link   

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