Elearning - June/July 2008 - (Page 43) Case StudyOnline Learning Enhancing the Online In 2001, Creighton University received a grant to launch the nation’s first distance entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy program, which enables students with at least two years of undergraduate work to earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree. The program requires that students take all didactic courses online and use Web-based books and course materials, but that they come to Learning Experience interactivity beyond the basics. Worse, the technology only supported one session at a time, which clearly wouldn’t satisfy the broad learning and collaboration requirements of the program. To be successful, the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions would need to bring its technology in line with the high standards and expectations surrounding the program itself. Elearning! June/July 2008 43 Creighton University >> Number of Students: 6,800 >> Industry Served: Higher education >> U.S. Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska campus in the summer for lab work. In all, students complete between 15 and 18 hours of online courses per semester, which is quite substantial compared to similar programs. At the time, Creighton University used an unsophisticated Web conferencing technology that allowed for application sharing, message boards and chat, but offered very little
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