session 3

Dr. Jim Monaghan, Director - Office of Online and Distributed Learning, CSUSB.

The interview topic was about “Institutional Support for eLearning at CSUSB”. It was interesting to me and I enjoyed it. There are many things that I wasn’t known about it before this interview.
Dr. Jim talked about what the Office of Online and Distributed Learning, CSUSB do, also he discussed many things with us that I summarized in points:

*The Office of Online and Distributed Learning (ODL) at CSUSB support education to be more tenable.
*Office of Online and Distributed Learning, CSUSB try to have more courses and program available. Also focus on videoconference.
*The instructors of CSUSB support student learning and develop their skills by using many different technologies.
*Office of Online and Distributed Learning, CSUSB support for faculty and try to make them uses online learning.
*Dr Newberry talked about the leadership support online camps office. And he asked Dr Jim several question about the office of Online and Distributed Learning.
*The CSUSB has a unique strategic planning to support online programs.
*The vision of e learning classes.
*How the faculty members know how to deal with this kind of online program.
*The Objective of online tools and the budget of online courses.
*Online courses better than face to face courses.
*Dr Jim talked about blackboard, audio, video, and podcast.


In this interview I learned many things about Office of Online and Distributed Learning at CSUSB, I like how the office supports teachers. Dr New berry use a lot of good question that make us understands the job of this office and make this interview interesting. This interview was broadcasted with talkshoe program. This program was recording the interview online live conversions. Also this program used chatting and discussion. I like this program because I can replay the interview that helps me to understand it more and more as I replay it.