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Video interview can enhance learning process. During the span of two years, a series of video interviews were developed for TMAN 636, Knowledge Management (KM).

PowerPoint presentations given in the face-to-face classroom are normally instructor-driven. A PowerPoint presentation posted on the Web loses the element of instructor-student interaction becoming student-driven learning episodes.

UMUC made a commitment in 2000 to provide a WebTycho online classroom to every face-to-face (F2F) class, and asked all its faculty to find ways to use the online classroom to enhance their F2F classes. The principle reasons for this commitment were to enable all students to have ready access to online resources (e.g., UMUC's library resources), and to promote information literacy for all students.

Dr. Ted Field fully used WebTycho features to enhance several of his face-to-face classes, including ADMN659, Strategic Management of Not-For-Profit Organizations. He williningly shares his experiences with the UMUC community.

Dr. Sayani, Professor and Director of Software Engineering gives his perspective on teaching a course via the web.

Regardless of how extensively we may try to communicate our expectations and rationale on the web site, some students are bound to have questions or concerns they are hesitant to bring up. It is even possible that students are communicating among themselves, grousing about certain issues that could result in significant dissatisfaction, bad word-of-mouth or even withdrawal from the program.

Drawn from his own experiences, Dr. Ali suggests strategies for new faculty members to successfully deliver an online course.

This is a multi-part series devoted to keys to success for effective online teaching.

While team teaching a cohort section of University of Maryland University College's (UMUC) on-line MBA program, the authors identified limitations in their students writing, research, and critical-thinking abilities. Recognizing significant opportunities for student improvements, the writers addressed the situation in three ways.

While the range of student personalities and problems we encounter in the online classroom remains pretty much the same as that which we see in the face to face classroom, there are a few aspects of the online environment that create new opportunities for the "usual suspects" to manifest their trademark styles.