ISHS Acta Horticulturae 641: XXVI International Horticultural Congress: The Knowledge Business: Horticulture Education and Knowledge Transfer
USING STREAMING VIDEO TECHNOLOGY TO TEACH VEGETABLE CROPS AS AN ASYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE ON THE WORLDWIDE WEB |
| Author: | G.E. Welbaum |
| Keywords: | Distance Learning, Crop Production, web-based teaching, web design |
| Abstract:
Horticulture 4764 “Vegetable Crops” is a required course for horticulture majors in the “Crops” option at Virginia Tech University. A classroom section of the course is taught each autumn semester on the Virginia Tech campus (Blacksburg, VA, USA). An asynchronous, web-based distance learning section of the course is taught during the spring semester. This class is open to Virginia Tech students and continuing education students not affiliated with the university. The distance education website for the class (http://www.courseware.vt.edu/welbaum/hort4764/) contains 43 lessons layered by topic areas into short paragraphs or bulleted descriptive summaries in html format that can be easily read from a computer screen. The distance learning website relies heavily on approximately 600 graphic images and brief Quicktime scripted streaming video movies that enable students to view field-based demonstrations of the principles of vegetable production. Net Forum software enables discussion between the instructor and students. The website contains a keyword search function to directly find information of interest. The website can be licensed for use by others outside the university. | |
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