June 29, 2009

Good Morning Developers,

First of all, welcome back Amy! We are excited to have you back and lending us your development and curriculum expertise once again!

Today marks the 50% development completion date and I will be spending this week going into your courses to see how things are coming along. I will be in contact with you individually regarding your development(s) and will be including Amy on the email as she will be working with you on your course(s) for the second half of this development round.

As you continue to work on your course development(s), if you have a research component as a requirement of the syllabus or simply as part of your course development, please don't forget one of our best resources we have...Elaine Settergren, our Online Librarian! Elaine's expertise can help you to clearly articulate research assignments and effectively guide students through the research process. To help illustrate what specifically Elaine can assist you with, here is a research assignment example:

Assignment Example:

To complete this assignment, you'll need to use the library.

1. Go into the Globe Education Network library through the library section of this course (click the red library link to the left, then click online library).
2. Once on the library's website, hover your mouse over the resources tab, then click the Databases A-H link.
3. Open ABI/Inform Complete (Proquest) database.
4. Find an article related to Media Planning; select "full text" and "scholarly journals" tabs, then click search.

In the first 1-2 paragraphs, provide a summary of the article. In the next 1-2 paragraphs, explain how the information in this article relates to media planning. Support your answer with evidence. Incorporate concepts from our text. Do not look for an article on the Internet; using the Library is a requirement of the assignment. Articles from the Internet, especially Wikipedia.com, will not be accepted.

You must include a proper APA formatted reference with your assignment.

You will notice that this assignment is very detailed and effective in guiding students effectively through the research process. When working on developing research assignments, please be in contact with Elaine at: esettergren@globeuniversity.edu

Once again, I've really enjoyed working with you over the past few weeks! Thanks for all of your hard work.

Heather