Web-based and Web-enhanced Courses

I am still learning the language of how to refer to courses which rely on the World Wide Web to deliver a variety of content.  There are so called "hybrid" courses which use a variety of means to deliver content including meeting in class, classroom discussion, using CD-ROMs, Internet exercises and using formats such as Blackboard to deliver content in a web environment.  These "hybrid" courses may also be referred to as web-enhanced.

Web-enhanced courses I teach:
SW 3400 Social Work Practice Methods I
SW 3620 Social Work Practice Methods II
SW 3480 HIV and Social Work

Eventually, I will be offering each course I teach as a web-enhanced course.

My understanding of web-based courses is that these refer to courses which are primarily taken online.  Some web-based courses may require students to meet in class periodically or not.  Austin Peay offers this type of course through its Distance Learning program.  These courses tend to utilize either Blackboard or Web CT.  I will be offering SW 4720 Senior Seminar online in Fall, 2002.  The class will not meet as a group.  We will meet through the various tools provided by Blackboard.  Assignments, lecture material, etc. will be through Blackboard.  I will post a syllabus for this course as soon as it is completed.

I hope you will take advantage of a variety of opportunities at Austin Peay to take web-based courses as well as web-enhanced courses.  Learn this technology now.  You never know, you may be able to take some of your graduate school courses on the Web!

For more information about online learning at Austin Peay  go to:
http://www.apsu.edu/apsuonline