A CASE STUDY OF WEB-BASED LEARNING:THE MICHIGAN VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY ITTRAINING INITIATIVE

摘要

The World Wide Web is achieving greater popularity as a vehicle for instruction in both the business andrnuniversity communities. A recent, notable development is the trend for universities or state governments tornpartner with software vendors to offer online IT training courses that often lead to certification. Forrninstructors, this raises an issue of how these partnerships can be utilized to enhance IT education. This paperrnpresents one possibility for doing this. It addresses a course project for incorporating online courses atrnMichigan Virtual University's website into a graduate IT course. The results of this effort based on studentrnsurvey feedback are also reported. Even though most students were new to online learning, participantsrnreported a high level of satisfaction with this experience and most said they would consider taking additionalrnonline courses. This report should benefit educators at other institutions as their universities or states partnerrnwith IT vendors to offer online courses and seek ways to take advantage of these opportunities.