1. Do you remember what year you started teaching via DL?
2. What inspired you to get involved with Distance Learning so early on?
3. You've continued teaching via DL for 10 years, whats compelled you to do so?
4. What experiences have struck you?
5. What would you like to share woth faculty who are preparing teach online for the first time?
6. What has worked well for you?
7. Any recommendations?

1. Please give us your thoughts about using a courseware system.
2. Which WebCT tools have you used?
3. How have the Instructor Briefcase and the WebCT Grade book integrated for you?
4. Where do you collect the student email addresses for the initial email that you send out to students?
5. Do you consistantly get email addresses for all of your students from the instructor briefcase?
6. What strategies have you used to keep students engaged with the online learning process?
7. Do you have to recreate the assignments, quizzes and exams each time that you teach the class?
8. Please relate any other thoughts, tips or comments that you would like to share with us.

1. Complete, detailed syllabus (4 or 5 pages long!)
2. Less than 24 hour turn around time for responding to both emails and homework 7 days per week.
3. Optional in-person orientation. The orientation summary is collated and posted to the discussion.
4. Students help and encourage one another.
5. Pat checks email and discussion 3-4x/day as he finds that his immediate response to students encourages their participation and success.
6. Pat posts information about campus activities for students such as scholarship opportunities.
7. Pat feels that high activity in the communication dept of an online class indicates that the class is working. Low communication indicates to him that the class is not working and that he needs to take some additional action.
8. Assignments are set up to be collaborative and he encourages that the students work together.
9. Pat experiments with different electronic tools on his goal to recreate the on campus classroom environment in the virtual realm.