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The following Technology Source Author Forums are scheduled in November and December. These forums are offered in collaboration with ULiveandLearn, an e-learning company that uses the HorizonLive platform to allow participants to interact directly with TS authors via their desktops. You may sign up to participate in any of these free webcasts by going to http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=webchats&issue=186 and clicking on the SIGN UP NOW button.

Forums Scheduled for Tuesday, November 12, 2002

2:00 ??? 2:45 Eastern Time: Tuiren A. Bratina, Darrin Hayes, and Steven L. Blumsack discuss how teachers can use learning objects in their instruction. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=961

3:00 ??? 3:45 Eastern Time: Samuel Sudhakar describes a community outreach program through which his college provides technology workshops to local K-12 teachers, allows school districts to share its server space, and offers distance education courses to qualified high school students. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=942

Forums Scheduled for Thursday, December 5, 2002

1:00 ??? 1:45 Eastern Time: When creating a new online program, institutions face an often-daunting range of issues. Karen Kaminski will discuss how she and her colleagues at the Colorado State University addressed these issues in launching an online undergraduate social science degree program. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=929

2:00 ??? 2:45 Eastern Time: In his spotlight site column, Stephen Downes offers readers a guided tour of MIT???s Web site, with particular focus on the OpenCourseWare components that MIT has released for public use. Stephen is jointed by MIT???s See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1050

4:00 ??? 4:45 Eastern Time: James Shimabukuro, projecting readers to the year 2010, imagines a world in which teaching and learning have undergone radical change through rapid innovations in software and hardware, the widespread decentralization of software codes and applications, and the eclipse of the traditional university by a virtual, global network of institutions. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1005

Forum scheduled for Wednesday, December 12, 2002

1:00 ??? 1:45 Eastern Time: Kenneth C. Green, founding director of the Campus Computing Project, discusses the results of the recent 2002 Campus Computing Survey in a Commentary interview, highlighting current trends???the broad expansion of technology-enhanced instruction, the increased use of course management systems, and the development of campus portals???and assessing how far we have come over the past decade. See http://ts.mivu.org/default.asp?show=article&id=1055

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Jim
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