Instructional Design Portfolio

Faculty member
Linda Kaumeyer

A virtual tour was created to compensate for a traditional tour of the local university law library for a course, "Law and Public Education", that was offered through distance learning.

Professor Linda Kaumeyer teaches a course , Law and Public Education, through the Educational Leadership and Policy Department of the Graduate School of Education. She was one of the first faculty members that began to explore offering her course through a hybrid delivery using interactive video and distance learning technologies.

In our initial meeting I posed the question to Professor Kaumeyer regarding what aspects of her class does she view as being difficult to accomplish in the distance learning environment that she normally utilized in her traditional face-to-face classes. She responded that she normally took her students on a tour of the UB Law Library to show them how and where to gather their research.

The Instructional Support team produced a virtual tour of the UB Law Library with the collaboration of Professor Kaumeyer and the UB Law Library. This streaming video clip is played and discussed in class and students are also able to review the presentation over the Internet at their own discretion.

Professor Kaumeyer first used the Web-O-Matic a homegrown course management tool developed through the Education & Informatics Systems Team. She has since began to utilize UBLearns course management system for delivering resources to her students and as a collaborative environment for her students.