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                                        Date:     15-Sep-1998 05:17pm MST
                                        From:     Alan Levine
                                                  LEVINE, ALAN
                                        Dept:     MCLI
                                        Tel No:   731-8297

TO:  Distribution to 48 addressees.  Use SH option to view.

Subject: Web Coursware Tools : 10/8 demo

In the first of series of college technology demos coordinated by the Ocotillo 
faculty chairs, on October 8, Phoenix College will host a demonstation and 
discussion on a system called "webCT". As outlined in the attached memos, there  
is a chance for Maricopa to obtain a liberally priced site license, if we feel 
it is a wise investment. 

The tentative agenda...

	10/8 Phoenix College, Encanto Room, lower level of Library

	2:00 - 3:00 Demonstrations of webCT as used at PC and perhaps MCC
	3:00 - 4:00 Teleconfernce/webCT chat session with software 
	            developers Murray Goldberg, Vancouver BC
	4:00 - ??   more disucssion, hands on access

Please share with others.


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                                        Date:     08-Jun-1998 10:15am MST
                                        From:     Alan Levine
                                                  LEVINE, ALAN
                                        Dept:     MCLI
                                        Tel No:   731-8297

TO:  Distribution to 33 addressees.

Subject: WebCT: Web Course Tools

One of the consistent threads form the 1998 Ocotillo Retreat:

  http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/ocotillo/retreat98

was a desire for less "wheel re-invention" and perhaps some agreement upon 
widely used, sound technologies in support of learning. 

This message is meant to open a dialogue in consideration of potential shared 
interest in one of the leading tools for web courseware development. "WebCT" 
(http://www.webct.com/) was developed at the University of British Columbia, 
and has been adopted by UCLA, the University of Georgia, and recently the state 
of Florida. At least two of our colleges that I know of (Mesa, PC) have been 
using it for some time.

Recently I had the opportunity to meet the developer of this program, Murray 
Goldberg of UBC, and he is willing to talk to us about different ways Maricopa 
might benefit from a combined licensing of their product, as mentioned in his 
message below. 

I have not had vast experience with this program and would defer to the 
opinions of Billie Hughes and others at PC as well as faculty and the CTL at 
Mesa. 

We could through Ocotillo, convene an intitial informational discussion later 
this summer, and Murray has expressed a willingness to participate via 
videoconferencing.

Please share this idea with others and invite them to comment.

-- alan
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 09:25:38 -0700
From: "Murray W. Goldberg" <goldberg@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: webct @ maricopa
Sender: goldberg@cs.ubc.ca
To: alan <levine@maricopa.edu>
Organization: UBC Computer Science
MIME-version: 1.0

Hi Alan - thanks for the note. Yes - we would be happy to work on a site
license for the 10 colleges. We have just received the word that FLorida
will be ordering a state-wide license, so we have some precedent to go
on.

There are a couple possibilities here. The first, and probably the best
given your large population, is for a license that allows any number of
servers. Normally the cost for a single-campus, single-server license is
$3,000 per year. If a single campus wanted an unlimited number of
servers, then the cost would be $3,000 plus $1,000 for every 5,000 FTE
students. For example, for a campus of 10,000, the yearly cost would be
$5,000. That is the normal pricing.

If you would like a single license allowing any number of servers at
your institutions I propose the following (it is similar to the Florida
deal). We would allow any of your 10 campuses to "opt in". For any
campus opting in, we would allow them to set up any number of servers
for their campus. The charge would be as follows (all are annual):

$10,000 plus $1,000 for each campus that "opted in". In the hope that
all ten campuses opted in, the total cost would be $20,000 per year. The
alternative of having each buy a single-server license is $30,000, and
of each buying multi-server licenses is about $50,000.

Anyway - that is my proposal. Let me know if any of this works for you,
and if not, feel free to propose an alternative.

As for the internet "conference call" - yes - we would be pleased to.

Best regards - Murray