Welcome to ECI 301 class website.

The Format of the Class

This course has two formats fall and spring semesters: one is face-to-face, "ECI 301, Realtime", which meets at 8:00 am,Tuesday and Thursday, on the ODU campus; the other is "ECI 301 Online", which has an orientation session, via Teletechnet, at the centers where students have registered, a second, optional Teletechnet support session about half way through the semester and an on-site, proctored final examination at registered Teletechnet centers. The assignments for both formats are similar and accessible on the net.

For the summer semester only ECI 301 Online is offered by Professor Allen.

Online Orientation and Support Meetings

The first meeting, broadcasted from Gronto Building, on the ODU campus, is the orientation (for date and time see the university catalog, and for the location, contact the site director at your site where you registered). The session features two-way audio and one-way video allowing you to ask questions for clarification. Attend at the site where you are registered. If you have a schedule conflict, the orientation session is videotaped and the tape will be available to view, and in some instances for loan, at all sites after the session.

A second optional support session will be held at the same sites.

The final exam will be proctored at the site where you have registered. In exceptional cases, it is possible to arrange alternative times for the final exam. Students can make arrangements with their site director.

Course Title: ECI 301--Social and Cultural Foundations of Education

Class website: http://www.odu.edu/dwallen then click "Social and Cultural Foundations of Education" under Current Course.

Instructor:

Dwight W. Allen
dwallen@odu.edu
(757) 683-5151
Room 153 Education Building
Old Dominion University
Hampton Road
Norfolk, VA 23529

Textbooks and Required Texts

1. Ryan and Cooper, Those Who Can, Teach, 10th Edition. Houghton-Mifflin (TWCT)
Note: The publishers include a supplemental CD-ROM that is not required.
2. Allen and Cosby, American Schools: The 100 Billion Dollar Challenge with Barnes and Nobles at http://www.bn.com

Contact Information

If you have any problems related with Observation and Blackboard Group Discussion Project, contact Mr. Shaoan Zhang at szhang@odu.edu

Room 153 Education Building
Educational Curriculum and Instruction (ECI) Department
Darden College of Education
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529-0161
Tel: (757) 683-4998
Fax: (757) 683-5862

If you have any problems related with quizzes such as Perception Access Code, contact Mr. John Hicks at jchicks@odu.edu

If you have any problems about Teaching Philosophy paper, Parrots/Ferrets, Retrospective paper, contact eci301@odu.edu (for ODU campus students) or eci301online@odu.edu (for Online students)

Call us at (757) 683-4998, which is the most effective way for two-way commnucation, when you come across some problems such as our class website problems.

Please do not send work assignments to Dr. Allen. Instead, contact TAs directly for your concern first. It is your responsibility to submit your assignments to the right person. Sending to the wrong person may result in late response or no response.