Virtual Welcome Session a success!

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the UTD SOM island in Second Life! Today’s Virtual Welcome Session was a success! Below are a few pictures from the event. To see the full set of pictures, click here.

Summer 2008 eLearning Newsletter Now Available

Hi everyone! Please check out the latest issue of the SOM eLearning Newsletter.

Online Teaching Award Nomination Reminder

Greetings!

Each year the School of Management presents an Excellence in Online Teaching Award to one professor. A link to the nomination is provided together with your course evaluation. If you haven’t submitted your nomination yet, we hope you take the opportunity to acknowledge a professor who has taught an excellent online course in this Spring 2008 semester.

Please submit your nomination at: http://som.utdallas.edu/globalmba/currentstudents/awardnom.php

Thank you for helping us recognize outstanding online teaching!

Second 8-week session has started

This is a reminder that 2nd 8-week session has started this week. We have 3 online courses scheduled for 2nd 8-week. GMBA program offeres AIM 6202.0G2 core course online and AIM program offers AIM 6335.0G2 and AIM 6335.0G4 online. If you have registered for a 2nd 8-week online course and haven’t logged in to the WebCT course site yet, please go to http://webct6.utdallas.edu/ to access the course. You can find more course access information in this online course welcome message.

Fall 2008 Online Course Preview

We have just posted the online course list for Fall 2008 semester on GMBA web site.

Please keep in mind these are the courses planned by GMBA and AIM programs for your preview. Some changes may occur. Please check the official UTD Fall 2008 course schedule when it becomes available later on.

Problems with lecture audios

Camtasia Studio Flash content (the format used for our streaming lectures in our online courses) playing on the latest release of the Flash Player (v9.0.115.0) may cause audio to sound garbled and/or contain a high pitched chirp, described as sounding like a chipmunk. Flash Players prior to 9.0.115.0 did not exhibit this problem. We contacted the Adobe Flash Player TechSupport team, who was very helpful and responsive. They confirmed the bug and escalated it to their engineering team. We’re hopeful that Adobe will be able to add a fix to a future version of the Flash Player.

To address this issue in the short term, here are some suggestions:

1. Do not update to the most current Flash Player
2. If you have the most recent version of Flash and you are encountering this problem, access the lectures via the “Optional Downloads” link in your course. This link contains downloadable versions (PowerPoint presentations and mp3 audio files) of the Flash lectures.

We will keep you updated on the issue.

GMBA/AIM Second Life Virtual Welcome Session

GMBA/AIM Virtual Welcome Session in Second Life

The SOM eLearning Team would like to invite you to our Spring 2008 Virtual Welcome Session on the UTD SOM virtual island in Second Life. Because many of you are spread out across the globe, we feel that Second Life will allow you to “meet” your fellow students, the SOM eLearning Team, and some of our GMBA/AIM faculty.

What is Second Life?

“Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents.” Second life has appeared prominently in the news recently as major corporations, media outlets, and academic institutions have set up virtual locations. The UT Dallas School of Management has set up its own island to be used for special events, recruiting and information dissemination, research, and student meetings and socialization.

To set up an account in Second Life, go to http://www.secondlife.com and click on the “Join Now” button. Membership is free. The registration process involves the following steps:

1. Create an account
2. Choose an avatar
3. Download/install the SL client.

We recommend that you take some time before our Virtual Welcome Session to become familiar with moving around within Second Life.

To visit our UTD SOM island, click on the link below, or while in Second Life, click on the [Map] button and search for “UTD SOM” then click [Teleport].

WHERE:
Second Life, UTD SOM Island
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD%20SOM/141/70/22/
(Please note, you must have Second Life installed for the above link to work.)

WHEN:
Friday, January 11, 12pm (noon) – 1pm CST

WHO:
Global MBA and Online AIM students

WHAT:

Participate in Q&A sessions, meet one-on-one with the SOM eLearning Team, meet some of our GMBA/AIM faculty, and network with fellow students.

For more information about the UTD SOM island in Second Life, please visit http://som.utdallas.edu/secondlife.

Welcome and Online Course Access

Welcome to the Spring 2008 semester! Many of you should have received the welcome email message we sent out on Fri. Jan 4th. We see a lot of you have already accessed your online courses starting yesterday, although a few may have experienced the server issues as posted. For those who get registered to the online courses after Jan. 4th, please check out this welcome and course access message.

Have a great online semester!

Spring 2008 eLearning Newsletter Now Available

Hi everyone! Please check out the latest issue of GMBA Online newsletter.

Spring ‘08 Courses in WebCT

And we’re back! Hope you guys enjoyed the break. We’re working hard to get everything set for the new semester. I know you’re all getting excited and anxious to begin your new courses; however, I just want to send out a quick reminder that your courses will become available on Monday, January 7th, the first day of classes. Up until that day, you will not be able to access your Spring ‘08 courses.

As always, if you have any questions, feel free to email us. Thanks, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!