The Newly Renovated "Home" of GMBA
Global MBA Online launched its newly renovated web site in February this
year. Many should have already seen our new site. There are quite a few new
content pages available. We hope this updated site will provide visitors
and students more helpful information and a more convenient navigation
structure. We would be happy to hear from you and welcome any suggestions and comments about our new web site. Please email us at:
gmbasupport@utdallas.edu.
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Financial Times' Top 25 Distance MBA Providers
The UTD School of Management (SOM) has recently
been listed as one of
the top 25 distance learning MBA providers in the world by
the
Financial Times. As a leader in the development of
Internet-based distance learning in graduate management
education, UTD SOM will continue its effort in providing quality
online education to the students. GMBA, along with a few other
online programs at SOM will keep expanding and improving our
online alternatives to traditional classroom learning.
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WebCT Campus Edition 6
UTD is upgrading its WebCT system from Campus Edition 4 to Campus Edition
6 starting from Summer 2006 semester. All Global MBA Online and Accounting
Online program courses will be offered on this new system from Summer 2006.
This new version of WebCT has some major differences from the old version.
It supports more innovative and dynamic approaches to teaching and learning.
Please see this Student
Guide to WebCT CE6 provided by UTD Information Resources. A
student tutorial will be available while logging in to the WebCT CE6 server. For a quick orientation, please see
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Summer 06 Online Courses and New Course Profile
In the coming Summer 2006 semester, The Global MBA Online program will be
offering 7 core courses and 6 electives. The Accounting Online program is also
offering 7 online courses. Please see the
Course Offering page for the complete course list. If you haven't
registered yet, please send your course registration request to:
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu.
Profile of a New Online Course:
MIS 6308.0G1 Systems Analysis and Project Management
MIS 6308 is intended as a strong introduction to the analysis, design and
management of software-based business systems. Prerequisite: MIS 6326 or
consent of the instructor.
About the instructor: Dr. Dave Heroy has more than 30 years of experience in
the computer/software industry as a programmer-analyst, development manager,
consultant, senior systems architect and entrepreneur. His Ph.D. was in
Physics but he has had a lifetime of starting and managing businesses and
creating and integrating a wide variety of software systems. He was most
recently employed by KPMG as a Senior Architect in the eCommerce and Supply
Chain practices. He has taught at UTD for five years.
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TxDLA 2006 Conference at San Antonio
The 9th annual conference of Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)
- "The
Future's so Bright" took place during March 6 - 8, 2006 in San
Antonio River Walk. GMBA Staff attended this year's conference as in the
past few years and delivered two presentations: "Creating Interactive
Multimedia Lecture with Camtasia" - which provides hands-on instructions on
turning a standard PowerPoint file into a Flash-Based multimedia
presentation. And "Teleconferencing and Online Group Presentation: Using a
Synchronous Tool Asynchronously" - which demonstrates how an online course
uses teleconferencing for group presentations without requiring all students
to be present. This year's conference was a great success and GMBA staff
found it a valuable experience in learning the current information on the
field and interacting with other distance learning professionals at this
conference.
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Elluminate Web Conferencing Tool and Survey
We started to use the new Elluminate Live web conference tool in this
Spring 2006 semester. Please see
Elluminate information in the last issue of our newsletter. From Summer
06 semester, we will make a practice conference session available on the
course site for anybody to use to become familiar with this tool. We would
also like to remind students that a microphone is required to
participate in
a web conference.
Elluminate has been used by some online courses for class conferences and
student group meetings on group projects during this Spring semester. We
would like to get some feedback from our initial user group. If you used the
web conference tool and haven't taken this short survey yet, please take a
few minutes to submit your feedback:
Elluminate Satisfaction Survey
 For any questions or comments regarding using Elluminate
and the survey, please email
gmbasupport@utdallas.edu
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Important Reminders
Online Teaching Award Nomination Reminder: If you haven't
submitted your nomination for Spring 2006 semester, you still have
the opportunity to acknowledge a professor who has done an excellent job in
teaching an online course in this Spring.
Please submit your nomination at:
http://som.utdallas.edu/training/award.htm
Academic calendar: Please keep in mind that our program follows the exact
same
academic calendar
of the university. All deadlines apply to online
students. It's important that you follow the schedule to pay fees, drop/add
classes, etc.
Course registration: Priority is given to GMBA students for core
course registration. GMBA students should register for classes during
the early registration period. Registration request from graduate students with
other majors will be processed when regular registration starts. Please send
your registration request to
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu.
Please see
UTD
Course Schedule. Graduation application: The deadline for graduation application for
Summer 2006 is Mon. May 22. Please email the GMBA Advisor at
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu if you are graduating. Please also see the
Graduation Web Site for more information.
Updating password: Please make sure you have a valid UTD NetID
account and update your account password periodically (6-12 months) so that
you can access UTD WebCT courses without any interruption. Please see
GMBA FAQ - Password. You can go to
the
NetID Page for
password updating.
Summer 2006 term course starting dates: 12 week courses
and 1st 6-week courses start on May 15, 8-week courses start on May
30 and 2nd 6-week courses start on June 21.
Courses will be released for student access on or right before these dates.
Please check out
the
Getting Started Information page for course access instructions and other
information. An email reminder will also be sent out to all registered
students right before the semester starts.
Fall 2006 course schedule and academic calendar is also available.
Please see
UTD Course Schedule.
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