Conference Session

Web-Based Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ece Yaprak, Wayne State University; Karen Tonso, Wayne State University

Tagged Divisions

Computers in Education

describe the course content with little attention paid to the process ofdeveloping such courses. While these are no doubt helpful for others trying to develop similarcourses, what we report here comes from systematically collected data that included informationabout how a faculty member incorporated advice about developing courses, selected labs for thecourse, and got those labs ready for student use, a research approach we hope to see more often.Course development funding arrived in early 2007. Because this left too little time to workthrough bureaucratic approvals for an undergraduate course before fall, a special-topics,graduate-level course could be offered in the spring-summer session (lasting seven weeks fromroughly early May through late