Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith (1) Political Science
Teaching with Technology: Moving Beyond "Content Delivery" 
Across Courses and Subject Matters

Originally prepared for the UC Davis Summer Institute on Technology in Teaching, July 2001
COURSE
(course names linked to course Webs)
PRODUCTION
(faculty members "producing" courses have variable teaching objectives, technology skills, and tolerances for course content delivery "middle-men")
CONSUMPTION
(students "taking" courses have minimal technology skills and a low initial tolerance for online learning)
Environmental Law
(most like a traditional course)
Faculty: Course Web; Regular Lectures and Expanded Online Notes; Listserve Web Archive(2); Regular Office Hours

Students: Research Paper; Five Exams

Students: Course Web; Regular Lectures and Online Notes; Email Messages; Internet Research; Library Research.

Faculty: Research Paper; Five Exams

Environmental Administration
(partly traditional, partly not)
Faculty: Course Web; Listserve Web Archive; Limited Lectures; Consultation Time in lieu(3); Problem Sets; Student Work Inventory Web

Students: Five Problem Solutions in Web-Ready RTF Format; One Exam

Students: Course Web; Email Messages; Lectures; Internet Research; Library Research

Faculty: Five Problem Solutions; One Exam

Environmental Politics
(least like a traditional course)
Faculty: Course Web; Listserve Web Archive; Introductory Lectures; Consultation Time in lieu; Problem Sets; Teach Web Skills

Students: Course Web with Six Problem Solutions; One Exam

Students: Course Web; Email Messages; Introductory Lectures; Internet Research; Library Research; Learn Web Skills

Faculty: Six Problem Solutions; One Exam

International Environmental
Law
(least like a traditional course)
Faculty: Course Web; Listserve Web Archive; Introductory Lectures; Consultation Time in lieu; Problem Sets; Teach Web Skills

Students: Course Web with Six Problem Solutions; One Exam

Students: Course Web; Email Messages; Introductory Lectures; Internet Research; Library Research; Learn Web Skills

Faculty: Six Problem Solutions; One Exam

Internships in Political Science and International Relations Faculty: Course Web; Listserve Web Archive; Web Forms (4) for Three Assignments

Students: Three Assignments

Students: Email Messages; Web Forms

Faculty: Three Assignments

NOTES:
(1) Gave access to an archive of outstanding student work compiled since 1986.  Hyperlink is now disabled. [Top]
(2) Email sent to students by faculty using course listserves can be maintained, at faculty request, in a Web archive during term time by IT-Instructional Resources.  The archives expire, however, at the end of term.  The example listserve Web archive hyperlinked in the table was created in the Spring Term and is, therefore, still accessible. [Top]
(3) Classroom time released from lecturing is routinely allocated in accordance with the Schedule and Directory to consultation time, for meetings with individual students and small groups. [Top]
(4) Interns must also complete an evaluation of the internship and arrange for an on-site supervisor to evaluate performance.  These evaluations were handled through Web forms.  Only the form for the intern's writing assignment is linked, here.  [Top]