Student Services Track

Online Student Center: Before, Behind, and Beyond the Courses

Many institutions provide great overall distance education support through Web sites, instructional designers, and technical support personnel. But online programs may need a more localized 'place' to disseminate and store information, and communicate among administrators, students, and instructors. See how an ongoing Blackboard site can be organized and both synchronous and asynchronous tools used in recruiting, orientation for new students, advising, archives, program planning, capstone presentations, and advisory committee meetings.

Presenter: Jane Zahner

Jane Zahner, Ph.D. is an instructional designer and professor at Valdosta State University, and has been teaching at a distance through interactive video and online course management systems for over 15 years.