Getting Started

In Online Courses..

Online courses are delivered via the World Wide Web and require no face-to-face meetings.

Faculty who are interested in developing an online course should call the Office of Online Learning at (201) 200-3449 to schedule an appointment with an educational technologist. During the initial appointment (which generally lasts from one to two hours) the educational technologist will discuss best practices in online pedagogy with the professor and will provide hands on training in WebCT to assist the faculty member in transforming his/her course from a face-to-face to an online format. Subsequent appointments will be scheduled as needed.

WebCT course shells will be automatically generated for faculty teaching fully online courses - i.e., courses that have been scheduled by department chairpersons as online offerings that are coded as "online" in the Peoplesoft student information system.

In Web-Enhanced or Blended Courses..

Web-enhanced courses are face-to-face courses which utilize a web-based component (e.g., WebCT) to enhance regularly scheduled course meetings.

Blended courses are courses in which the content is distributed between online and face-to-face instruction.

Faculty who are interested in teaching web-enhanced or blended courses should follow the same procedures noted above to request assistance.

Faculty may request a WebCT course shell for web-enhanced courses by completing the WebCT Course Request Form . Requests should be initiated at least two weeks prior to the start of the semester. The staff of the Office of Online Learning will contact faculty with access information once the shell has been created. Please allow forty-eight hours for course creation.

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