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University of Alberta: eLearning: From Grass Roots to Mission-Critical
3/25/2003
"eLearning is truly a mission-critical service for the University of Alberta, and the next generation of WebCT will assist us with achieving several of our core institutional objectives: recruiting and satisfying new students and faculty; providing the best possible learning experience for our students' lives and careers; and creating an improved learning environment inside and outside the classroom," explains Dr. Doug Owram, Provost and Vice President (Academic).
Province-Wide Use
In addition to building online learning within the institution, the University
of Alberta serves as a resource to colleges and universities regionally and
worldwide. As a WebCT Institute, the university shares its observations, best
practices, and expertise in eLearning with members of the Institute Network,
and with the WebCT community as a whole.
As the first-ever Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence for E-Learning, the school serves as a reference site for eLearning infrastructure, providing advice and assistance on server selection and management issues to educational institutions worldwide.
The Province of Alberta also has a province-wide WebCT license, allowing all educational institutions in the region to develop and launch distributed learning programs using WebCT. Many are already doing so, with programs that include multimedia resources, such as video and audio files and animation.
To learn more about the University of Alberta's eLearning program, visit www.ualberta.ca/ webct, or contact Susan Stein, Distributed Learning Project Lead and WebCT Administrator, at susan.stein@ualberta.ca.
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