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Monday, October 11, 2004
Scaling Up: From Web-Enhanced Courses to a Web-Enhanced Curriculum - Robert E. Wood, Innovate Online
In the past decade, the most important technological innovation in higher education has been the enhancement of academic courses with Web-based information and tools. With and without course management systems, instructors have progressed from using what Kuechler (1997) referred to as an "electronic reserve shelf" to extensive, interactive online resources. The World Lecture Hall, the most well-known repository of links to academic Web sites, attests to the vitality yet unevenness of this movement. A few "enhanced" courses do little more than deliver the traditional print syllabus via the Internet, but many prove that the creative possibilities of Web use are almost endless (see Mullinix and McCurry [2003] for a useful typology).
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