Jim Bertelsen
Instructional Design Technologist

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Teaching Online Courses

In the summer of 2001 I co-instructed the capstone seminar "EdPsy 490 I: Analysis of Advanced Instructional Technologies" for the Curriculum, Technology and Education Reform Online Ed.M. Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This four-week intensive course was equivalent to a semester-long class. My primary responsibility was the curriculum development and instruction for week 2 of the course, in which my area of focus was streaming media for instructional purposes.

I have been invited to co-instruct this course again in the Summer of 2002. The Web site (using the new CTER course template I developed) and the course content are currently under development. This year I will install Windows Media Server, RealServer, and QuickTime Streaming Server, prepare user accounts for students, and develop tutorials for creating streaming media in all of these formats. Students will investigate instructional uses of streaming media, and incorporate streaming media into their professional ePortfolios.

 
 

Supporting Online Courses

I have helped instructors to bring their own courses online through courseware such as Blackboard, WebBoard, WebCT and LearningBias VOICE. However, my primary focus has been creating class Web sites using the CTER course template I developed, and converting instructors' classroom-based materials for online delivery. These include narrated multimedia presentations, the implementation of conferencing technologies for synchronous and asychronous communication, a variety of tutorials, and subject matter expert video interviews distributed via CD-ROM and Interactive Multimedia Papers.

I have also conducted formal instructional needs analyses paired with the evaluation and assessment of online communication technologies for instructional purposes.

Supporting online courses is a search for standards with constant experimentation. To meet these ever changing demands I have developed multiple templates and tutorials for students and instructors alike. I am currently in the process of redesigning the CTER Web site, and have recently completed a joint project to develop CTER's pre-orientation CD-ROM.

After preparing a prototype template for the asynchronous presentation of students' multimedia final course projects, I'm now considering a database-backed solution to greatly facilitate creating and displaying such presentations in cross-platform environments.


 

EdPsy 399EA is a course I helped to bring online for the first time.

Bringing EdPsy 399EA online required conversion of existing materials, training for the professor and her teaching assistant, video production and editing, the creation of a hybrid CD-ROM, and served as the prototype for my new CTER course Web page template (look familiar?). I also setup and maintained the course's asynchronous WebBoard, grading database, and provided a chat logging mechanism for online text chats. As a student in this course, I paired an online instructional needs assessment with an evaluation of online communication technologies.

 
 

Taking Online Courses

Not only have I taught and supported a range of online courses, but I've also taken two online courses myself. This firsthand student's perspective has been invaluable to me as I seek to make improvements to the frameworks for online learning.

 
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