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What is Support Shell

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eLearning Engagement in a Transformative Social Learning Environment
This is a course management system shell used to store and give access to materials for students in a traditional or face-to-face course. Twenty years ago this role would have been played by an ftp site or “class homepage” at some institutions. For example, one of the authors maintained his homepage at America Online from 1998 onward, and wrote his own html code to create homepages for each class to give students access to slides, article readings, etc.
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Bandwidth and Online Course Design: A Primer for Online Development
Timothy B. Michael (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA) and Melissa A. Williams (University of Houston-Clear Lake, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6956-6.ch008
Abstract
This chapter is designed to provide resources and answer questions on two levels. In the first part, the authors present a menu of considerations and challenges that they have experienced when shifting an accredited undergraduate program to a parallel online modality over the past several years. In addition, they offer suggestions for working within the BlackBoard learning environment and give a glossary of commonly encountered online instruction terms. They identify some commonalities between online and traditional instruction that can serve to make newcomers more comfortable adding online teaching to their skill set.
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