COS - Online Instruction

This site offers instructors a starting point for designing websites to support distance education courses.

Teachers tend to approach each class with a collection of ideas and techniques that, when coordinated, become a teaching style. There are a number of models that characterize different teaching styles. This web site uses the four teaching clusters identified by Tony Grasha. You can link to this teaching styles information, you can take an on-line inventory at this site.

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What is copyright? What works are protected by copyright? What is not protected by copyright? How do I register a copyright? How long do copyrights last? How do I protect my copyright? Copyright ownership at UC Who is an author? What is a work made for hire? What is joint authorship? Transfer of copyright to publishers Copyright and the Web

ABSTRACT This study has two primary objectives. First, we want to know how students who enroll in online classes differ from their peers in traditional lecture classes. Our second objective involves both exploring what factors influence performance among online students, as well as whether those factors differ for online and lecture students. Our comparisons are of two large sections of a course in computer programming for which almost the only difference was that one section consisted of on-campus lectures, and the other section was online. We find that online students do differ from lecture students in a number of important characteristics. However, when we examine class performance and course completion, we find that the factors which influence performance seem to have a stronger impact on lecture students, but we cannot reject the hypothesis that factor coefficients are the same for the two groups.

The Medium is NOT the Message

Most copyright questions that arise at the university revolve around issues of ownership of new works, or fair use of existing works. Related questions arise with respect to managing our copyrights, negotiating publication agreements, developing digital libraries, and posting materials to Web servers. The answers to these and many other copyright questions will almost always begin with a few fundamental principles of copyright law. The following principles can be a useful and important foundation for all copyright discussions. Need a place to start with your copyright question? Copyright law fills volumes, but here are a few points that will help frame the issues: