UTD School of Management Entered Second Life
Second Life is a 3-D
virtual world where people (represented by avatars) reside and build their
own environments. "Since opening to the public in 2003, it has grown
explosively and today is inhabited by a total of 5,830,334 people from
around the globe...... Second Life is an exciting new venue for
collaboration, training, distance learning, new media studies and
marketing", as stated on Second Life web site.
The UTD School of Management has recently opened its doors
to the UTD SOM virtual island in Second Life. This virtual space, which was
entirely built and is maintained by GMBA staff, provides numerous spaces for
UTD students to gather, communicate, and collaborate. Visitors to the island
can walk through the SOM building, meet in classrooms and conference rooms,
and meet with team members in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings. A
virtual auditorium and outdoor venues have been created to house future
events.
To access Second Life and visit the UTD SOM island, you must first create
a free account at Second
Life web site (click on the “Join Now” button) and download the client software
to your computer. After you login to Second Life, to visit our island, click
on the Map button and search for “UTD SOM”. Or visit the following url:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/UTD SOM/141/70/22/. For more information
about the virtual UTD SOM and how to access it, please visit: http://som.utdallas.edu/globalmba/secondlife/SOM_SL.html. The SOM island
is still being developed. More contents and features will become available
soon.
We hope the virtual SOM in Second Life will provide you an opportunity to
"physically" experience the School of Management and give you a new approach
to access school information and interact and socialize with faculty, staff, alumni and
fellow students.
We look forward to seeing you in-world!
(About the image in this newsletter: avatars of GMBA Staff
members gathering inside the virtual SOM building in Second Life)
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Summer 2007 Courses and New Course Profiles
In the Summer 2007 semester, The Global MBA Online program will be offering
5 core courses and 8 electives. The Accounting Online program is also
offering 9 online courses. Please see the
Summer 2007 Course Offerings page for the complete course list and also
the textbook list. The Fall 2007 courses are also open for registration. See
the
Fall 2007 Course Offerings page for the course list. If you need to
register for courses for either Summer 07 or Fall 07 semester or both, please send a registration request to:
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu from
your UTD email account.
Profile of a New Online Course to be offered in Summer 2007:
BPS 6320.0G1: Government Regulation of Business (3 semester hours)
This course will examine the punishment of business
through regulation. It will be dealing with the regulation of
business from both a strategic management and a business policy
perspective. It will study the intent of the regulatory system,
its effects on corporations, both positive and negative, and the
strategies businesses use to manage the regulatory burden.
The course considers the impact of U.S. federal and state
agencies on business as well as international legal issues.
Emphasis is on a strategic approach to the principle regulatory
issues facing business today.
Student Learning Objectives/Outcomes
- Students will identify strategic solutions to regulatory problems.
- Students will construct an imaginary firm and evaluate variables
such as firm size, location, and form of business relating their
decisions to laws and regulations.
- Students will identify a variety of legal possible solutions.
The course will consist of short, basic lectures on the material to be
followed by podcasts covering current lawsuits and examples. Students will
research legal problems and cases and write individual assignments as
responses to the problems. Groups will form companies, and each group will
receive a series of legal issues that they will respond to.
About the Instructor
Dr. Marilyn Kaplan teaches Strategic Management in the GMBA program and the
Strategic Management of Healthcare in the classroom. Her research interests
include the effects of regulations on industries such as the insurance
industry.
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Global MBA Online Blog Site Launched
We have recently set up a blog site in our continuing effort to improve
communication and interaction with online students. We'll keep you
up-to-date with the useful and related news and information about the online
courses, around the school and the university on this blog. We encourage you to drop in
and post your comments. We would love to hear from you! Here is the blog
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Using UTD Email Account
UTD provides each student with a free email account that is to be
used in all communication with university personnel. This allows the
university to maintain a high degree of confidence in the identity
of individuals corresponding, and the security of the transmitted
information.
To access UTD email, please go to:
http://galaxy.utdallas.edu and login with the UTD NetID and
password. To maintain your UTD NetID account, please go to
http://netid.utdallas.edu. For any assistance with your UTD email account, call
972-883-2911, email
assist@utdallas.edu or access live web support at
UTD Help Desk web site.
Please note: All registration and other academic advising requests
need to be sent from your UTD email account to
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu.
GMBA Advisor will not be able to process your request if it does not come
from your UTD email account. Please also use your UTD email account to
contact gmbasupport@utdallas.edu
for technical and other online course support requests.
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TxDLA 2007 Conference at Galveston
The 10th annual conference of Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA)
- "Discover
the Treasure of the Distance Learning!" took place during March 27-29,
2007 on Galveston island. GMBA Staff
members attended this year's conference as in the past several years, and delivered two
presentations: "Using Respondus Tool to Create and Manage Online Quizzes" -
which provided hands-on instructions on using the tool to create online
quizzes; and "Virtual Environments: The Evolution of Online Learning?" -
which demonstrated some educational uses of the virtual world -Second Life.
It was indeed a great treasure hunting experience for GMBA staff. The conference provided
an opportunity to interact with fellow distance education professionals, to
discover the latest in distance learning and to learn tips and tricks
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Important Reminders
Online Teaching Award Nomination Reminder: If you haven't submitted your
nomination for Spring 2007 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/globalmba/currentstudents/awardnom.php
Academic calendar: Please keep in mind that our program follows the exact
same
academic calendar
as the university. All deadlines apply to online
students. It's important that you follow the schedule to register courses, pay fees, drop/add
classes and 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 from your UTD email account to GMBA Advisor at
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu.
Please see
the UTD
Course Schedule. Graduation application: The deadline for
graduation application for Summer 2007 is May 21, 2007 and for
Fall 2007 is August 23, 2007. Please email the GMBA Advisor at
gmbaadvising@utdallas.edu if you are graduating. Please also see the
Graduation Web Site for more information.
Updating your password: Please make sure you have a valid UTD NetID
account and update your account password periodically (every 6 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. Email reminders for password expiration are usually sent
to your UTD email account.
Summer 2007 semester course starting dates: 12 week full term courses
and 1st 6-week courses start on May 14, 8-week course starts on May
29 and 2nd 6-week courses start on June 25.
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 2007 course schedule and academic calendar is also available.
Please see
UTD Course Schedule.
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