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Hello and welcome to online instruction for open educators
my name is Jenni Hayman, and in addition to being the lead instructor for this
course
i'm the executive director of Wide World Ed. This is our first MOOC
and we're really excited about it and really pleased that you've chosen to
join us
We've put together really great course team (really!) including Sean Gallagher
our director of learning technologies Terry Anderson from Athabasca University
Dave Cormier and Bonnie Stewart from University of Prince Edward Island
each of them bring amazing and diverse talents and research interests
to their teaching work and they're all very collaborative teachers
in our first week we'd like you to take a look at the course launch area
where you can find information about navigation, setting your personal
preferences
and managing the discussion forums. In addition there's information in there
about how to contact us
if you need additional support. In module one we're going to cover off several
interesting topics
including student views of higher education basic intro to MOOCS
online instruction, and we're going to explore with your, your personal teaching philosophies
welcome to the course thank you for choosing Wide World Ed
and we'll see you in module one!