Can MERLOT be used by librarians and teaching faculty to develop a vital, modular information literacy curriculum? Laura Hudson and Patrick Sullivan, librarians at San Diego State University, wondered that and wrote a grant to conduct a survey of the California State University library staff and to hold two regional workshops on the topic. These workshops explored how librarians from various disciplines might more effectively utilize MERLOT and how they might more actively become involved in the MERLOT effort. This MERLOT conference workshop is a culmination and distillation of what they learned in this process, and will include a tour of MERLOT from an information literacy perspective, guided exercises, case studies, hands-on exploration, and time for discussion. You will leave with an understanding of how MERLOT can be used as a medium for promoting information literacy. This workshop is designed for everybody who is interested in exploring the use of MERLOT for developing your information literacy curriculum. This Pre-Conference Workshop costs an additional US$40.

The objective of this full-day workshop is to provide participants with an introduction to the process of interactive learning object design that they can then apply to projects in their own institutions. Those interested in learning about the process of developing highly interactive learning activities with multimedia will be able to experience the process first-hand as they move through several iterations of the design cycle while addressing an instructional challenge. In this hands-on, interactive session participants will work in project groups to design a prototype for a learning object as they apply the information from the workshop, including topics such as: learning styles, project management, paper prototyping, evaluation, and constructivist learning theory. They will be encouraged to share their knowledge and ideas not only within their own groups, but also with the wider learning community that will be established. Components of the process will include identifying the features of learning objects, understanding learners and the creation of learner profiles, a model for design and development, planning, design and testing. Participants, will learn about the process in practice and about how learning object design can foster learning communities through best pedagogical practices. This Pre-Conference Workshop costs and additional US$80.

Users must be of central consideration in the development and implementation of learning modules if they are to be successful. Usability testing evaluates the effectiveness, ease of learning, ease of using, and preference for using technologies from the user's perspective. In this workshop, tools and techniques of usability testing will be introduced and reviewed. Through hands-on experiences, you will learn simple methods for identifying user difficulties with a variety of websites. This workshop is a must for faculty who want to develop their own learning objects, who use learning objects in their classrooms and teaching, or who want to develop peer reviewer skills. This Pre-Conference Workshop costs and additional US$40.

CATEA, IDET and MERLOT have collaborated on the Georgia Research in Accessible Distance Education (GRADE) http://www.catea.org/grade/index.html project funded by the U.S. Ed Dept) to increase awareness about disability and accessibility issues in distance learning. CATEA (www.catea.org) is a research, instruction, and service center within the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology. IDET (www.idetcom.com) is a for-profit organization that has partnered with CATEA for the last two years in delivering accessible information to people with disabilities. Come learn about how we're planning and implementing strategies to ensure access to online education to all.

MERLOT provides a wide range of products and services for the academic community. This presentation will provide first time attendees of the MERLOT international conference with tips on how to make the best of the conference. Also presented will be a brief introduction and review of MERLOT services, programs and governance processes.

The widespread implementation of web-supported instruction on advanced networks provides an opportunity for educators to create and share a vast number of digital learning resources--course materials, images, and video, as well as the interactive tools that are designed to harness this content and facilitate the process of online learning. Douglas MacLeod (Netera-eduSourceCanada) and David Porter (NewMIC-eduSourceCanada) will use this keynote opportunity to present views of the repository implementation process that speak to institutions and organizations with large-scale responsibilities for implementation, training and management, as well as to faculty, instructors and other practitioners who want to contribute to or share in learning object communities of practice.

This workshop will provide an orientation to the BEN Collaborative, a biological sciences digital library. The two objectives of the workshop are to provide participants with an overview of a working model of collaborative collections development and demystify metadata through interactive browse, search, and cataloging/submission activities.

MERLOT offers peer reviewed on-line instruction components that can readily be adopted into faculty courses. The presenters will discuss the purpose and advantages of MERLOT to teaching and learning. Participants will learn how to access and to use the MERLOT web site.

Educators in three states are working together to develop a federation to promote the use of arts education as a tool for school improvement. Based on the successful A+ Schools initiative in North Carolina, this tri-state effort will use Internet2 technology and MERLOT's online community and collaboration features to help reach its goals.

A presentation of problem-solving modules in which students analyze data, create models to explain the data, and use the models to make predictions. The instructor collects and projects several models in class with a transilluminator and provides specific feedback and guidance to help students revise their models.

The result of a two-year partnership and collaboration between Barbara Giorgio, Department of Art at Ball State University and Edward Noriega, Director of Graphic Design, Department of Art and Design at Troy State University will provide insight into how shared experiences through videoconferencing can enhance a traditional drawing course. This session will invite participants to discuss how the use of technologies can inspire, encourage, and engage students.

What would you like to learn most about teaching and technology? How does and can MERLOT help you in terms of faculty development and support resources that are driven by the latest technology? What do you need to know in presenting MERLOT effectively? Members of MERLOT's "Teaching and Technology" Editorial Board will share their experiences of what worked and what didn't work in our efforts to bring MERLOT to faculty users during the past year. Join us for a lively discussion!

Come learn about the research of "Effective Access: Research on Access and Use of Digital Resources" project--a massive user-usability study about information seeking behaviors of high school science, technology, engineering, and mathematics teachers. This project will provide a unique, user-centered design and development methodology to all collection builders!

The main portal to the National STEM Digital Library (NSDL) was opened in December 2002. For this innovation to have widespread effect, much needs to be known about the users. In this session, undergraduate science faculty members will share their perceptions regarding implementation of the NSDL.

This session describes the rationale for the development of educational modeling languages that seek to formally describe the complete educational transaction. Such description allows the process to be interpreted by both humans and machines and is an essential educational component of the emerging semantic web. The session compares EML and the IMS Learning Design and illustrates early examples of the use of this specification in net based courses.

The presenters will discuss a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant proposal in which faculty participants receive training in the MERLOT peer review process and ultimately produce peer reviews of learning materials in their disciplines. A win-win proposal, faculty develop a better sense of quality in online materials and MERLOT increases its number of peer reviews.

See how a university system member, a campus member, individual faculty members, and university support systems collaboratively participate in MERLOT. In this session we will describe a faculty train-the-trainer program and establishment of system-wide and campus conferences for teaching and learning with advanced technologies that include strong keynote and workshop sessions on participating in MERLOT. This session will focus on building capacity in teaching and learning through effective contributions to and use of MERLOT.

The WorldArt website contains over 27,000 images that are organized into portfolios by period, goegraphy, political and social history, images of music and dance, drama and literature, through material culture. Searching by keywords, artist, nationality, period, style, type of work, date and any word from a title,faculty members can create their own portfolios on-line.

Authors of the VIDA collection will demonstrate use of DAG-Edit from the Gene Ontology Consortium to build a dynamic controlled vocabulary that can adapt as life science teaching standards and research-based curricula accumulate or change (Richter and Lewis c2003). The result is a hierarchical scaffold to organize the VIDA collection of images into a cognitive structure appropriate for K-6 science.

In looking to support the needs of novice to expert authors, we have formed a collaboration working towards building an open-source authoring environment based on "Pachyderm". We will show the current exhibits, talk about limitations, and our vision, and ask for input from the audience to help us create the vision.

Is it OK to rank your choices based on what other people think? In a twenty minute presentation, I will explore some of the advantages and some of the disadvantages of this approach to quality assessment. Together, we will attempt to create a framework for evaluation that does not employ peer review. Though this session will be informed by recent developments in the philosophy of science and education, the discussion will be appropriate for anyone interested in using new technologies and standards to help filter learning objects.

Scenarios can be a powerful tool in multimedia development when used throughout the development cycle. Participants will learn how to write good scenarios as well as when and how to use them. Participants who bring current development problems will leave with a few beginning scenarios to use in their work.

This session will explore the potential of using role-playing simulations to facilitate deeper levels of learning in your courses. You will learn how to find, develop, and effectively incorporate role-playing simulations into your learning activities.

The recent alliance between MERLOT and the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII) creates great possibility for introducing transformational practices to the higher education community. Two NLII Research Fellows will address the actions, issues and key themes have landed within the Venn intersection of this alliance.

At Queen's University, we are members of the Cooperative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE). CLOE@Queen's is our approach for learning object development, which is rooted in the need to build and sustain a learning community. This presentation will highlight our model, how it worked in practice, and our outcomes.

What faculty support promotes really significant and effective educational uses of technology? This presentation draws from seven years of work by a team at Queen's University (Canada) that includes faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and IT specialists. Focus will be on the Learning Technology Faculty Associates model, three faculty surveys, and Learning Technology Teams.

Workshops that nurture best teaching practices often remain separate from those that promote technology skills and integration. The BT2 project is designed to create a training model that brings the two pieces together, so that faculty learn experientially about the principles of adult learning in an online context.

Animating multivariable concepts enhance the ability of the student to comprehend the dynamics of three dimensional mathematical concepts. We have developed interactive pedagogical material that makes use of animation as a tool to teach the Multivariable Calculus course. The animations are generated using Mathematica® and then exported into Macromedia Flash®.

This session will demonstrate an online authoring system for the purpose of creating web-based video lessons. Attendees will be given an overview of the authoring tool, demonstration of lessons already created, live demonstration of a new lesson, and information as to how they can access this tool.

Over the past year the MERLOT History Editorial Board has been working to design and develop a portal into the MERLOT history collection that will help users to find materials. It will also provide users with information about teaching history with technology as we build a learning community around the use and development of learning objects in history. Members of the History Editorial Board will discuss the development of the portal and reflect on the requirements for creating, growing, and sustaining such a community in MERLOT and beyond

The MERLOT Teaching and Technology Community began at the 2002 MERLOT International Conference with a primary goal to support faculty in teaching with technology. We have developed a mission statement, a categorization system, and evaluation criteria. We have begun the development and management of our collection. This Roundtable will provide an opportunity to discuss our efforts and receive advice.

The panel will showcase the best learning materials that MERLOT has to offer for Teacher Education for the arts, special education, technology, literacy, science, and math education. Members of the Teacher Education Editorial Review Board will describe how they use MERLOT in their classes and showcase their Personal Collections.

This session will explore the question of evaluating digital course authorship in the peer review process. How much is writing an online course worth to review committees in various disciplines? How should prospective course authors prepare, document, and present their course work to review committees? And how can administrators set policy in this area?

We will examine a matrix model using three qualifiers (tiers of tool usage; ephemerality of content; social domains of interaction) to inform the design and evaluation of courses involving networked components. The model is tool-appropriate, simple enough for real-world practice, and backed up by successful classroom usage.

The Teaching Online site at The University of Central Florida is providing the many resources--pedagogy, logistics and technology--that facilitate successful online teaching (and learning) at an institution of over 38,000 students. The Teaching Online site compliments the learner's site, Learning Online. It is this combination of teaching and learning tools that delivers successful online support for effective courses.

The State University of New York was a recipient of the Sloan Consortium Award for Excellence in ALN Faculty Development (2001), Excellence in ALN Programming (2002), and the EDUCAUSE award for Systemic Progress in Teaching and Learning (2001), for its approach to online learning via the SUNY Learning Network. The SLN program overcame barriers to achieving quality, scalability, and sustainability in building a model online learning environment. Learn about the important role MERLOT played in faculty development in these award winning efforts.

EdNA Online was one of the first metadata repositories built in early 1996. The portal provides access to online resources, tools and services for the Australian education and training community. Recently, in response to the shifts in the strategic directions of the stakeholders in the education environment and the maturing Internet, EdNA Online has had to re-invent itself. This presentation will outline the business drivers, the technical architecture to support three business service delivery models, and the benefits for stakeholders.

This session will bring together discussants around the topic of student evaluations of teaching in online courses. Beginning with a brief literature review and a case study of one university’s experience, the session will explore emerging methods, policies and obstacles in developing innovative evaluation strategies for web-based learning.

Education Network Australia (EdNA) is a collaborative initiative in Australia in response to the rapidly changing Internet environment. Collaboration is the cornerstone of the development of services, the interoperability framework, the sharing of experience and expertise across states, territories and sectors. The initiative grew into a national portal for and on behalf of the Australian education and training community. The portal is the conduit for national and international collaboration. This presentation will describe the Australian education and training environment, the challenges for teaching and learning and the strategic value of working at a national level for mutual benefit. It will describe the history of the EdNA Online portal and how it has supported national and international collaboration.

MERLOT reviewers frequently have difficulty evaluating the standard of "Pedagogical Effectiveness." The workshop leaders will generate and submit new criteria for this standard. Workshop participants will use (and assess) the proposed criteria by reviewing actual learning objects in MERLOT. These assessments will be used to modify the proposed criteria that will then be submitted to the MERLOT Editors' Council.

This workshop will highlight common barriers in distance education for students with disabilities and showcase tips, tools, and resources for ensuring accessibility for HTML files, PDF files, and PowerPoint presentations.

MERLOT is working with a number of educational organizations, professional societies, corporations, systems of higher education and individual campuses, and digital libraries to extend its reach in terms of content, services, and members. This session will focus on how to develop partnerships with MERLOT, the process for suggesting new partners and collaborators, and strategies for leveraging resources through working with MERLOT.

Assessing learning outcomes for instruction that relies on technology for delivery, requires a well thought out approach. Performance assessment requires knowledge of student learning processes and the planning of how students will demonstrate that knowledge and skills.

Instructors use a variety of techniques to assess student contributions in asynchronous discussions within online courses. Faculty often report confusion and dissatisfaction with their assessment techniques (Dennen, 2002). This presentation will discuss various assessment methods and introduce the concept of having students self-assess their work using a rubric.

In order to advance learning object repository technology, the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto, is developing the authoring tools, repository architecture, and preference schema needed to support transformations of curriculum across multiple contexts, according to the learners' needs and preferences. This presentation will include demonstrations of prototypes developed to date, based on IMS Accessibility standards.

Concept Maps are tools for organizing knowledge in a hierarchical manner. In conjunction with a course or textbook, they can serve as the entry point for browsing resources such as animations, lecture videos, and solved problems. This paper describes a method for automatically linking a large body of resources into a concept map.

The CSU's Community of Academic Technology Staff (CATS) is charged with providing cost-effective professional development opportunities for academic technology staff systemwide. It began in 1998 with a conference, planned and presented by and for the staff, and has steadily grown to include a grants program, regional and online workshops, listservs, service groups, and special interest forums, all of which continue valuable networking opportunities throughout the year. Learn how your institution can use the CATS model to enhance the productivity and networking opportunities for staff at your institution.

Since 1995, the SDSU WebQuest site has evolved into a lively system of data and discussions with its own culture of sharing and experimentation. This year, the site underwent an overhaul to increase this interactivity. What worked? What still needs work?

Ontario's CLOE (Co-operative Learning Object Exchange) finds that IP video-conferencing improves learning object development. These benefits extend from issues of usability to educational rationale. IP video-conference collaboration ensures a higher quality learning object with better input from appropriate stakeholders ranging from subject matter experts to programmers and testers.

The creation of learning objects to support technique-based learning in an online environment is a considerable challenge. Face to face offers the opportunity to show how to build a technical diagram. Dual coding theory and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning suggest narrated presentations offer promise. These theories are discussed with examples.

This session demonstrates techniques for determining the feasibility of implementing a learning object approach in teaching and learning settings. Using Macromedia Breeze, pedagogic principles for creating SCORM and AICC compliant learning content using familiar content creation tools such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash will be explored.

This presentation will describe how three international communities in Australia, Canada and the USA (EdNA Online, eduSource, and MERLOT) have used technologies to provide value added services to their clients. The communities have agreed to work together to share quality online resources and information services. In this process the three organizations have been sharing expertise in the provision of services and technologies.

Creation of multimedia learning objects is costly and time consuming. This presentation will discuss and demonstrate the finding and use of quality and accessible digital learning objects found in Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) for designing a health assessment course.

This presentation will give overview of what is happening in the higher education/distance education world with handheld applications and highlight a Virginia Community College System project where nursing students are using selected learning content and materials on PDAs in clinical and in the classroom.

Part face to face and part online, hybrid courses offer faculty and students a flexible and creative learning environment. The presenters will define hybrid courses and explore some of their advantages and challenges. They will also share learning materials from the MERLOT collection that can be used to build successful hybrid courses.

Synchronous Chat, Asynchronous Discussions, Email: Which should I use and how can I use them effectively? Develop a community of critical thinking online learners that interact with each other, the content, and you by implementing effectove communication techniques. I will present various ideas for posting discussions that encourage dialogue, techniques for minimizing email, and rules for organized chats.

Collaboration among faculty and librarians adds value to academic teaching and learning. Faculty and librarians working together create a synergy that engages students to become critical thinkers and independent learners. Collaboration among university libraries maximizes collective resources and increases capacity to support academic communities.

Librarians are well positioned to embrace the use of educational technology; they have resources and they have incentive. Teetering on the cutting edge of information technology, libraries are committed to continuous change that will benefit the world of learners. Based on this reasoning, the importance of librarian participation in learning object design teams is illustrated.

How can we maintain innovation in technology integration in the curriculum? Dartmouth College's Venture Fund initiative will be presented and discussed as an example. This internally funded grant-based approach to promoting technology use has initiated many innovative web-based projects. We will discuss the merits and the limitations of this approach, primarily in terms of long-term sustainability, and possible paths towards more scalable solutions.

Organizations devote considerable effort to developing repositories of digital educational materials. Getting faculty to utilize digital libraries receives less attention. We share how our university system's and other universities' participation in digital repository projects provides opportunities for faculty to disseminate materials, and to review and adopt others' materials.

ALEKS, published by McGraw Hill is a web-based math and arithmetic tutorial that uses an artificial intelligent software program to assess and direct instruction for student success. The ALEKS program provides assessments that result in customized instruction and practice in mathematics and statistics. ALEKS can be deployed within the wide variety of academic contexts from remedial math courses, to summer orientation programs, to any lower or upper division course that requires prerequisite quantitative competencies.

Everyone is talking about learning objects these days but exactly how do you create them? This question will be addressed in this interactive workshop both in terms of exploring effective strategies used to develop pedagogically-sound learning objects and in terms of how MERLOT can be used to support the needs of authors and developers of learning objects.

We will introduce a growing collection of Low-Threshold Professional Development Activities (LTPDAs) designed to enable faculty to find, adapt, and use technology-enhanced teaching and learning resources. Preparatory activities, follow-up activities, and the event will model LTPDAs. The onsite session will include remote online presentations.

While multimedia and web-based materials are commonplace in the college classroom, their use typically mirrors the teacher-centered, didactic pedagogy that plagues science classrooms. I will demonstrate how to use animations to create an active-learning environment that promotes knowledge construction and a deeper understanding of concepts and processes.

Teaching effectiveness may be enhanced through inclusion of animations, simulations, and unique pictures that are found with MERLOT. These materials can be hyperlinked and quickly accessed as shortcuts in PowerPoint, Word, or other applications. This session will include excerpts of lectures to demonstrate how faculty members from MERLOT Biology are currently using MERLOT Learning Modules in the classroom. Two or three mini-lectures will be presented followed by a brief discussion of how the lectures were prepared.

A 2003 MERLOT Editors' Choice Award winner, The Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier will be introduced by authors Professors Timothy Smith and David Korevaar.

A 2003 MERLOT Editors' Choice Award winner, David Yaron’s, Virtual Chemistry Laboratory invites us to explore the world of the chemist through a virtual chemistry lab. Join him in mixing agents, reagents and other magical potions (some even explode)--always a plus in any Chemistry classroom!

Benefit from lessons learned in using MERLOT. Featuring her award-winning MERLOT site, K-6 Arts Lesson Plans, Dr. Guenter will provide teaching ideas that can be adapted by faculty for student investigations, reflections, and assessment. Group engagement of a MERLOT assignment featuring online images for cross-curricular work will be included.

A 2003 MERLOT Editors' Choice Award-winner, WebQuests support inquiry-based learning in which most of all of the information used by learners is drawn from the web. The WebQuest Page offers extensive support and examples for those who are using WebQuests for teaching and learning. Professor Dodge will guide us on our own quest to learn more about the site and it’s impact on learning.

This panel presentation focuses on the relationships between faculty development and the development of communities of practice to aspects of digital scholarship. Panelists from the Edusource project will discuss how they are promoting digital scholarship through various strategies including collaborative learning object development, peer review processes, and evaluation research.

In this session we will present the results of impact studies on learning objects at the eight founding partners of the Collaborative Learning Object Exchange (CLOE). Impacts were assessed in two ways: First, a student questionnaire was used to assess learners' perceptions of the value of the learning object. Second, the perceptions and experiences of instructors and instructional designers involved in the development, use, and/or evaluation of the learning objects were assessed through interviews.

How can you design a simple measure of project or class progress? Using a simple tool, (either paper or web) perceptions of participant knowledge, experience and confidence can be measure several times during a project or class result quickly obtained to provide insight into learning, teaching, and working collaboratively.

O'Reilly & Associates is currently developing an innovative academic publishing and supplementary material exchange platform. We invite you to a concept presentation and open feedback session regarding O'Reilly's academic platform, which will include three major components: 1) A file sharing website that will allow educators to share or sell supplementary materials they have created, 2) A strong tie-in to SafariR Tech Books Online, enabling the creation of online syllabi, and 3) A custom publishing capability, allowing educators to dynamically create custom books tailored to their courses. Our goals are to enable educators to collaboratively create and improve course materials, offer students a wider range and richer selection of materials, and reduce costs to students and educators. If any of this sounds interesting to you, and you'd like to contribute your thoughts and expertise to our initiative, please join us for this presentation and feedback session.

Pathophysiology is a dynamic science. This collaborative interdisclipinary project allows students to "visualize" pathological concepts via an immersive virtual reality to foster student learning. Visualizations include interactive models of blood coagulation and the hypothalmic pituitary ovarian axis.

Finding and determining how and when to use multimedia materials available on the World Wide Web is difficult and time consuming. The presentation will focus on how to use MERLOT to locate and evaluate potential materials for mathematics and science. Presenters will demonstrate how these materials can be organized and used.

This session compares MERLOT World Languages evaluation guidelines with other existing models of assessment of online resources. It deals with materials designed for language instruction as well as literary research (e.g., digital libraries).

I present a model and simulation results for the migration of a web-based graduate "Survey of IS" course toward use of MERLOT resources wherever possible. This experiment also motivated determining whether suitable modeling and simulation resources were already available in MERLOT, and to take action to improve their availability.

I encouraged my students to use MERLOT engineering sites to do their group research projects in a variety of subjects within different fields of engineering. Their experiences, challenges, results, and rewards in the completion of their tasks are the main theme of this paper.

This session will explain the theory and practice behind MERLOT's new Federated Search technology. The first part of the session will explain what the Federated Search technology is and what may be done with it. The primary focus will be to increase understanding of how federated searching is an important and useful technology for MERLOT users. The second part of the session will delve into a bit more detail about how web service technology works and how MERLOT has implemented it. We will discuss how partners can take advantage of the technologies and how MERLOT plans to work with them. The final part of the presentation will be a discussion about the future of MERLOT Federated Search and web services technologies.

For many years the de-centralized nature the University of Michigan was a hindrance to effective faculty development. Duplication of effort and poor communication abounded. All that changed as a result of the grassroots effort of the academic technology support units on campus to collaborate. Now in its 6th year, Enriching Scholarship draws 500 faculty and other academic technology staff each year to 2 weeks of Faculty Roundtables, seminars, and hand-on workshops. With nearly 100 sessions, Enriching Scholarship is our premier faculty development event. For this year's program see: http://www.umich.edu/~teachtec/ES2003/.

In this session the didactical and technological concept and evaluation of an International Marketing course will be presented. The course is taught in a blended learning modus. Different (teaching) technologies are employed: face-to-face-presentations, Blackboard, CBT, virtual classrooms, and several MERLOT modules.

The New Orleans Consortium for Technology Integration and Implementation in Teacher Education (NOCTIITE) developed formal and informal mentoring structures at two universities in content courses, preservice courses and field experiences for future teachers. Data indicated the complexities of setting up mentoring relationships either worked very well or not at all.

The Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) is an electronic warehouse of ideas, examples, and resources that support learning at the Maricopa Community Colleges. See how we tripled our collection with a friendly competition for software prizes. Learn how we are syndicating content with RSS and connecting to other collections.

The GRADE project at the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education to explore issues related to the accessibility of distance education for students with disabilities.

The @ONE Project is a Technology Systemwide Project of the California Community College Chancellor's Office. Using a variety of distance learning and face-to-face learning technologies, @ONE serves all 108 California Community Colleges. Come learn about what @ONE offers, and the approach the project takes to "teaching and learning using technology".

Preliminary findings will be presented from an investigation into student understanding of vector components in kinematics. The research is based on individual interviews, written tests, and questions administered over the web. The results indicate that most students have a basic understanding of vector components with a few notable exceptions.