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Conceptual:
  • OLN is a consortium of Ohio higher education institutions cooperating to promote e-learning.
  • OhioLearns! is the catalog of distance learning courses, certificates, and degrees offered by Ohio higher education institutions and maintained by OLN.
  • OLN strives to help students find the best educational fit for them.
  • E 4 ME is to be taken after students have acquired basic computer skills, but before enrolling in an institution’s orientation course.

Informational:
  • The E 4 ME Instructor Wiki is: http://wiki.e4meohio.org/index.php?title=Main_Page The E 4 ME Program Coordinator, Gail Peters, is available to answer your inquiries. You may contact her at gpeters@oln.org.
  • OLN has Regional Coordinators to help answer students’ questions and to serve as back-up to all instructors of the course.
  • The course is offered through the collaborative learning environment (CLE) named WebCT Vista. Future versions of the course will use additional CLEs.
  • Students should be directed to register for the course at: http://www.e4meohio.org/
  • Once students register, they will be assigned to a course section. When requested, every effort will be made to match designated student groups with specific instructors teaching specific course sections.
  • Course sections last approximately four weeks, beginning on the first Monday of the month and ending on the last day of the month.
  • Instructors will personally grade all text-submitted responses. Multiple choice and True/False questions are graded automatically.
    In the event that inappropriate comments are posted to the discussion board:
    • Notify the student immediately (through use of the student’s e-mail internal to the course) and make it clear that inappropriate comments are not acceptable
    • He/she may remain active on the discussion board, but comments must pertain to course material.
    • The student may be removed from the course if inappropriate comments continue to be posted
    • Remove the inappropriate postings from the discussion board:
      1. Select the Teach tab, click on Discussions on the bar at the top right of the Homepage, select the topic title (i.e. Unit One Assignment: Autobiography), then select the item (check box) to be deleted (located under Subject), and click on Delete.
      2. Note: Deleted postings cannot be retrieved.

Relational:
  • OLN philosophy is to facilitate students’ exploration of e-learning options, but to refer students to those contacts providing services at the appropriate institution once the student has identified that institution.
  • Instructors can build a stronger relationship with their students, if a brief response is sent directly after each assignment or quiz. Even quizzes that are automatically graded have a space where instructors can respond with short comments like “Good,” “Well Done,” or “You are making good progress.”