THE PROBLEM:
Part of our mission at the NWCET is to improve Information Technology education. After receiving our NSF grant to develop IT Skill Standards and curriculum, we realized that institutions that adopted the curriculum would be interested in courseware mapped to the Skill Standards. That is, an instructor might say "I want to use your curriculum, do you have any course materials that I could also use?" In order to have the quickest and most dramatic effect on IT education we decided to focus on the development of Online courses. A primary challenge was how to create courses that are more than just "textbooks" online. How can we use the technologies of the Web to make the courses instructionally compelling and educationally effective?
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