Course Development Credits
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Course Development Credits This online faculty development course was developed by Professor Lani Gunawardena, Dr Chulantha Kulasekera, and Dr Shantha Fernando, Tutor Mentor Specialist Consultants for the National Online Distance Education Service (NODES), the ADB funded Distance Education Modernization Project of the Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka. The two modules in this course on “Conducting Practical Course Components at a Distance and Virtual Labs,” and “Orienting students to online learning and Moodle” were developed by Mark LaMontagne, Education Specialist for the same project. The course has subsequently been revised with input from Dr Gayathri Jayatilleke, Mr. Malinda Kumarasinha, and Geetha Kulasekera of the Open University of Sri Lanka, and Mr Saman Kulasuriya, Mr Chinthaka Gajamanhewa, and Mr Chinthaka Hewawasam, of the Course Design Unit of NODES. Selected modules of this original course were adapted for a graduate level course on Developing Online Learning Communities at the University of Sao Paulo - Ribeiro Preto, Brazil by Prof. Lani Gunawardena and Felipe Amaral of the University of New Mexico, USA, and Prof. Dutra of USP_RP. |