Need some help making your way through the quagmire of decisions you must make to choose the best software solution for your online learning initiative. FutureU has years of experience and up-to-moment expertise in what software tools are available, what they really do, and how effectively they have helped other schools.
Now you can benefit from this breadth and depth of experience through a personalized session with FutureU's CIO Claude Whitmyer. He'll help point you in right direction, answer the most frequently asked questions, and support you in identifying and solving the issues that are unique to your school and critical to your success.
Project or Event Web Sites. Make every event special. Well in
advance, invite participants by email to click on your special event Web site,
integrated into a "private membership" area of your online community. There,
give them a real sense of the importance of what you have planned for them.
Invite suggestions with surveys and discussion questions. Get people "talking."
Think of the staff time you'll save answering routine questions. After the
event, make the site even more active.
Prices start at $2,500.00.
Learning Event Web Sites. A central location for each learning
event. Includes pre-event preparation and post-event reinforcement elements and
a rich set of resources focused on the topic of the learning event. Also
includes facilitated teleconferencing or online support groups, and, in some
cases, face-to-face events. Enhance interest in, and outcomes of, any learning
event, whether it is a primarily face-to-face or completely online.
Prices start at $2,500.00.
Faculty Development. After training with FutureU, 83% of mainstream faculty (not early adopters!) said they now felt like "intermediate," "advanced" or even "professional" Web course builders. Two-thirds had called themselves "beginners" when we started.
Creating Online Library Access. FutureU's Library Web Tool is a detailed guide for school administrators and librarians who want to introduce or expand online library access to their constituency.
Co-authored by Chris Mays, MLIS, and Gail Terry Grimes, FutureU's CEO, this
planning Web Tool exists as a series of more than 50 Web pages with dozens of resource links accessed on the Internet. It includes hundreds of action steps, an ongoing peer discussion forum, and a Resource Tool Kit with a complete staffing plan and other planning forms, an extensive book list related to online library services, links to numerous school library sites, and other valuable resources.
Price: On sale - $29.00
Faculty Web Book: Make the Most of Teaching Online. Everybody's talking about
teaching online. You're going to do it. But... Where do you
begin? And what if you've already started? How do you know if you're doing it well? You could read a book. There are a few good ones, but that's like playing piano music on a violin. FutureU's Faculty Web Book really uses the resources of the World Wide Web. As you go, you visit lots of other sites, carefully selected as the best ones for introducing each particular aspect of the online teaching and learning experience. Whenever the authors find a terrific new resource, they add it to the Web Book, just the way you might hand out a new reading in a course. This flexibility is part of the beauty of the online classroom.
Price: On sale - $30.00
Student Web Book: Make the Most of Learning Online. FutureU's Student Web Book prepares the adult learner for a successful experience in any academic course that is delivered partly or completely on the Internet. It may be used as a self-paced tutorial or as the text for an introductory group learning experience lasting two to four weeks or more, depending on the instructor's needs. It may be purchased in single units from the FutureU E-Store or in multiple copies for substantial institutional discounts directly from FutureU.
Price: On sale - $10.00
Bargain Hunter's Guide to Building Your Course Web Site. Everything you need for building a terrific course Web site is available free or for a few dollars on the Internet. In the Bargain Hunter's Guide, we've collected links to dozens of free and low-cost resources for building your course Web site. We've personally tested every one of these products and selected only the best to share with you.
Wrapped around these links are more than 50 pages of guidelines and tips written by us to help you get started on the right foot, avoid wrong turns, and finish with a truly terrific course Web site. The material is easy to read, so the work is painless and even fun.
Price: $10.00
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