How are presentations done via DL?

Discussion in 'General Distance Learning Discussions' started by MadCoder, Jan 17, 2009.

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  1. MadCoder

    MadCoder New Member

    A lot of traditional masters programs require that you do a lot of papers and do presentations on them in class. At least, that is what I was lead to believe. How is this done, if at all, in distance learning programs?

    I was looking through the course descriptions for the courses you take for the M.S. in Software Engineering from the University of Michigan Dearborn, and most of them state that in-class presentations are a requirement of the course. Is this requirement waived for the DL students (that seems unlikely), or you simply do the paper and not the presentation (that seems more likely), or do you still do some sort of presentation via streaming video (lol .. that seems unlikely too).

    I suppose I should be asking the profs this question as it probably depends on the prof teaching the course. But I already e-mailed an unrelated question to one of the profs at UMD, and he seems to be ignoring me now. LOL. They probably don't have time to spend answering questions to people who aren't even in the program yet, which I guess is understandable. This forum might be a better place to ask since there's people experienced in doing masters via DL here.
     
  2. Vinipink

    Vinipink Accounting Monster

    Some Presentation are done by Microsoft Power Point.
     
  3. pugbelly

    pugbelly New Member

    In my BA program at Bellevue, all presentations are done in Power Point with additional handouts and a presentation outline.

    Pug
     
  4. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

    As others have said, powerpoint. Plus, Q&A by webcam/teleconferencing.
     
  5. Fortunato

    Fortunato Member

    It depends on how your program is run. If your program is run more like an independent or correspondence study, the professor may want you to submit a paper and a slide deck along with presenter's notes, and you never actually "give" the presentation, although you have to do all the preparation work. If your program is run more like a class with online chats or conferences, usually the learning platform (eCollege, Blackboard, Centra, etc.) will have some sort of functionality that will let you load slide decks and other documents into the class environment and run your presentations "live". I've been active in DL programs at three different universities since 2001, and where I used to see a lot of the first way of running things, the second way is becoming the more common. It might seem unusual at first, but given how much business gets done these days via tools like WebEx or GotoMeeting, you will find the skills you pick up in making presentations via the Internet to come in very handy later on.
     
  6. sentinel

    sentinel New Member

    At Champlain College we had to prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint (OpenOffice.oerg Impress) slideshow complete with voice-over presentation. The assignment was uploaded to the server where other students in the course could retrieve it and playback. This was the model typically used by the instructors for the weekly lectures for distance education courses. In short, it required researching the topic, preparing the slides, preparing the lecture/report notes, recording the voicetrack for each slide, and finally reviewing and modifying the content of the slides, the notes, and the voicetracks. All in all, it was definitely more work effort than simply researching and writing a paper.
     
  7. Monocular

    Monocular New Member

    I'm new to distance learning, but in my MA program in NCRP (Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding) at CSU Dominguez Hills the instructor posts his lectures via video on a weekly basis, to be watched "asynchronously" (at a later date). I believe that other classes in this program use a similar method for disseminating lecture material.
     

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