Courseware vs web sites for on-line delivery of Instruction
Strengths & weakness

Two of leading methods of on-line instruction: a FrontPage enabled web-site and Course Info from Blackboard.com can provide us with an opportunity to look at the same course in different formats. From that we can try to determine which instructional components seem to work best on each, giving the instructional reasons for using the component and the advantages/disadvantages of each delivery method. We will focus on:

Topic Web site Blackboard
  • Communication:
    • Discussion
    • Small Group interaction
    • Whole Class Interaction
    • Announcements

  • Instructional delivery
    • Chunking
    • Cohesiveness
    • Sequential and non-sequential accessing
    • Navigation among chunks
    • Interactivity

 
  • Course Management
    • Syllabus
    • Schedule
    • Assignments
    • Exams
    • Assessment Reporting (grades)

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