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>From: "Christopher J. Higgins" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
>Subject: A Survey on web-based learning systems
>Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:10:33 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
>Priority: NORMAL

Last spring my colleagues and I conducted research on the use of Web-based
Course Management Systems in language education.  The responses for the pilot
study were limited but did show some interesting trends, and some obvious
flaws in the survey tool. According to comments from the respondents, as well
as, session participants at a number of conferences last year, we have
revised our survey tool on Web-based Course Management Systems.

We have divided the original survey into two (Faculty and Student) and
shortened it considerably.

The audience for the Faculty Survey is anyone who has; a.) developed
materials for; b.) taught; c.)set up; or d.) anyone involved on the
instructional side of; a language or language-related (methods, linguistics,
etc.) course using a web-based course management system.  You can get to the
survey at http://www.otal.umd.edu/wcmt-intro.html.

The audience for the Student Survey is anyone has used any part of a
web-based course management system for a language or language-related
course.  The student survey can be accessed from
http://www.otal.umd.edu/wcmt_stu_intro.html.

Your help in taking the survey and encouraging your students to take the
survey will be greatly appreciated.

I will be presenting the preliminary results at the IALL 2001 Conference
(May 22-26).  After the conference, I will post the presentation.

I appreciate your help in gathering this information.

Chris Higgins
Instructional Technology Specialist
University of Maryland

Colleagues:
Roberta Lavine, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Spanish
University of Maryland

Paulette Robinson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology
Towson University

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Christopher J. Higgins
Instructional Technology Specialist
Office of Information Technology
4437 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg.
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-2411

301-405-5190 phone
301-405-0720 fax
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