Web Technology Integration in Community College

by Mindy Stinson

The explosion of technical advances have provided the opportunity to work and learn with students in different time zones and with different devices. The Kelsey campus has the potential to add more options for the students who commute from Baderman Island, work odd hours or need more class options. Instructors can use interactive and collaborative media to encourage students to express their opinions and ideas, gather information, and assist in a more dynamic learning experience.

These advances provide a new direction in learning and determine future content in instructional design. The emerging digital culture allows students to interact through media enhanced content.
Previous teaching methods including lectures, class discussions, and laboratory projects. This limited the time of instruction to specific classroom hours and curriculum materials. Web 2.0 tools can build a classroom environment that will improve the classroom experience for many of our students in the Northwest Valley area. A learning management system will extend the traditional methods to a web-based management system. Web course collaboration tool and web course management features are included in learning management systems. The tools will include synchronous (same time) and asynchronous (not happening at the same time) features.


Course design features of a learning management system are useful for group or individual activities. Instructors can use bulletin boards or forums to post announcements and course related activities. Other learning management system features include grading, performance tracking, chat session logs, response times, quizzes, materials, search tools, file sharing, whiteboards, and collaborative documents.

New applications are integrated with traditional instruction to merge the classroom experience and the flexibility of web 2.0 tools. Today's classroom can include blogs, wikis, web pages, podcasts and other interactive multimedia within the learning management system.

In the effort to expand our curriculum, we invite students to write or comment in our survey to gather information about student learning in cyberspace. 
Please click on the link below to access our survey

Which internet delivery method would you like to see in your class?