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Course Components
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Implementation
Examples
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Contact:
Lindsey Johnson
Maureen Moses
Katie O'Neill
202-737-1043 or
1-800-824-0405
onlineocean@ametsoc.org
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Implementation Highlight
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| AMS Ocean Studies
can be offered in a wide variety of learning environments and fits your
college's schedule. Integration of AMS Ocean Studies with your
course management system allows for immediate student
feedback and automated grading.
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AMS Ocean Studies
Implementation Examples
On-campus Lecture/Laboratory
AMS Ocean Studies is offered as a 4-5 credit
laboratory course with 2-3 lectures and 1-2 lab sessions per week. Students are
assigned a text chapter before each week's meetings and then use lab time for
discussion of the Weekly Ocean News and completion of labs in the
Investigations Manual and Current Ocean Studies activities. The
instructor grades work in the traditional way or has students enter their
responses on a course management system website for automated scoring and
instant feedback.
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Online Offering
AMS Ocean Studies is offered as a completely
online class that may begin or end any time of the year or may be an open ended
self-paced course. For the typical asynchronous class the instructor assigns
text readings and Investigations Manual activities, and may use course website
materials to round out the student's work. Instructors form online
collaborative study groups and communicate with students through e-mail, an
online discussion board or via chat. Group discussions can focus on the Weekly
Ocean News and other course topics. The instructor uses a course management
system for overall course organization as well as student response and testing.
At many schools, AMS Ocean Studies rounds out their lab science course
offerings.
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Blended Courses
Non-traditional students, often in the workforce, are
flocking to courses that deliver high quality learning in a variety of new ways
that directly meet their needs as busy adult learners. The typical blended
course offers most course content online but provides an opportunity for the
class to interact in the live classroom several times during the term. This
method provides many advantages from secure testing environments to
opportunities for group lab activities to the recognized benefit of getting
students together, even if only a few times, to meet the instructor and each
other and discuss course content. Class meetings are often held on weekends and
evenings and may be as many or few as scheduling needs dictate. Some courses
make the live meetings optional when a part of new "flex-class"
programs. Accelerated degree programs where a cohort of students take a single
class over a five week period frequently find this delivery method ideal. It
also works well for short "winterim" and summer session
programs.
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Web-enhanced Lecture
The instructor offers 2-3 weekly large on-campus lectures
and students complete Ocean Studies textbook readings. Testing is done
in-class. The instructor uses the AMS Ocean Studies text-users website
for discussions of the Weekly Ocean News and current ocean data. Textbook
chapter review and critical thinking questions may be assigned as
homework.
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