To ensure student success and engagement, faculty members should:
a. make evaluative comments in the discussion forum as to the quality of each student's post so they can improve.
b. administer multiple choice tests to measure students' progress in learning the concepts.
c. provide timely feedback to students using a grading rubric through the grading center.
d. use their discretion as to the amount and frequency of their feedback to the students.
Question 2In a distributed learning environment, faculty members should:
a. take their face-to-face lectures and turn them into a podcast.
b. teach the course the same way as the face-to-face course, as all sections of the course need to be the same.
c. use the same activities as the on-campus courses; there is no need to adjust them.
d. develop learning activities that engage the learner with relevant real-world activities.
Question 3From a faculty perspective, the two critical criteria for a CMS/LMS are:
a. ease of use and tool set.
b. installed base and integration.
c. cost and scalability.
d. ease of use and installed base.
Question 4For a successful distributive education program, the institution:
a. must always offer students the option for distributed learning even if there is no faculty buy-in.
b. should move forward with an initiative to offer distributive learning in order to stay competitive even when resources may not be in place.
c. must match the goals and objectives for a distributive education initiative to the mission and goals of the institution.
d. should offer distributive education as a way of making money and lowering operating costs.
Question 5Two examples of campus portal systems are:
a. Moodle and Blackboard.
b. Ellucian and Jenzabar e-Racer.
c. Desire2Learn and Blackboard.
d. Sakai and Ellucian.