Student Orientation to the Online Classroom


Faculty Development	Faculty Web Book	Fast Track Coaching	Student Preparedness	Student Web Book	Staff Training

A FutureU Student Preparedness Program
Technology-Enriched Learning

Contents
Features
Benefits
Technical Information
About FutureU

"Thank you for all your insight and extremely well-prepared and informative e-learning materials!"

Nathan D. Wong

"I wish everyone could read these ebooks."

Maria Shea

e-Learning...Anytime, Anywhere. This module has been delivered for nearly 10 years to clients ranging from the American Hospital Association to the Dominican University of Califronia. It is thoroughly tested and well suited to any group of university, college or high school students.

Whether tenderfoot or veteran Web surfer, everyone has gaps in their understanding of what it takes to learn online. Even if you surf, email, and "instant message" every day, these experiences don't prepare you for the processes, skills, and attitudes necessary to excel in the online classroom.

Using the FutureU Student Web Book as a text, a skilled facilitator introduces any group of 10 to 20 students to the fundamentals of learning online. In the process, participants come to know what it's like to work as a learning team—an excellent way to encourage group activities in later, content-based modules.

Includes two volumes containing eleven chapters and a Web-based student tool kit filled with Internet resources. See also the following tables of contents:

Volume 1

Volume 2

Features

Eleven-chapter Student Web Book (One year private password-protected access.)
Expert, daily online facilitation
Online Tool Kit of Web resources useful for student learning
Peer-based technical-support forum
"Cafe" forum for informal conversation
Plenty of motivational learning activities

Benefits

Demonstrate your institution's high expectations for online learning.
Give every student an equal chance to excel in any course that has an online component.
Provide easy access to a wide range of online resources (Student Internet Tool Kit).
Boost student confidence.
Allay parent concerns.
Reduce faculty and IT staff workload.
Achieve maximum buy-in the shortest possible time.

Technical Information

This FutureU Web Book exists as a series of Web pages accessed by password on the Internet. All you need is an Internet email address and access to the World Wide Web. When you buy this Web Book, you will receive a personal password that gives you access to the Web Book from your computer as well as access to at least one subject-based discussion forum and one peer-based technical support forum.

The Student Web Book has been tested for use as a course text in Blackboard, eCollege, etudes, FirstClass, IntraLearn, Prometheus, Web Course in a Box , VirtualU, WebCT, and as a stand-alone Web site that can be used with any electronic classroom. Conversion to your school's standard electronic classroom environment is available for an additional fee.

About FutureU

FutureU publishes Web books, provides online and face-to-face learning experiences, consults with institutions, and studies the fields of online education and communications. Don't look to us for Java training; our niche is the "soft" subjects.

We are a virtual company. We develop our products in teams of independent contractors, with a subject matter expert, producer, and programmer on each team. Our sales force also functions virtually.

Visit the FutureU Web site for more information or for access to books, tapes and other resources.

For more information, please contact Gail Terry Grimes, CEO, at 415/824-7726 or Claude Whitmyer, Chief Information Officer, at 415/648-2667.

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