CS 6604: Tools for On-line Education
Steve Edwards

This course is a graduate seminar course covering advanced topics
in software support for on-line teaching and learning. The course
will involve a combination of reading/discussing current papers in
the relevant research literature, and group projects that involve
developing or extending tools for on-line education.

Possible topics to be discussed in the course include:

--  Background on educational theory and the basics of
    instructional design
--  Research issues in evaluating learning impact
--  Course management systems (e.g. Moodle, Sakai, Blackboard)
--  Tools for on-line learning
--  Tools for communication in the classroom

Group projects are pursued by small groups of students (2-3), and
consist of a semester-long design and development task: creating
an electronic solution to a teaching-related or learning-related
problem of interest to that group.  In addition to bi-weekly project
reviews, each group will produce a draft conference paper describing
their work.