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Instructor's Name: Greg Kessler Email: kessler@ohio.edu Department/Program: Ohio Program of Intensive English School/College: College of Arts and Sciences Project Title: Academic Oral Communication Skills Related Course: Academic Oral Communication Examples:       http://teach.citl.ohiou.edu/bin/common/main.pl?course_id=opie500_kessler Credits: Lia Plakans (Co-Developer) Robert Butler (Design)       Greg Kessler Academic Oral Communication Skills   1. Describe your Project: This is a CD-Rom based multimedia courseware project designed for advanced (graduate level) students of English as a Second Language within the Ohio University Community. In conjunction with the CD-Rom delivered material, an extensive collection of internet based materials, as well as a Blackboard course site, was developed to provide an area for interaction among students and the instructor of the courses that utilize this courseware. 2. Learning goals or project objectives: Lectures and materials introduce and support accurate forms of oral interaction among members of the academic community. Students are expected to interact with the CD content to practice and master oral communications in situations relevant in a standard US academic environment. 3. Who was your target audience: Graduate level international students at Ohio University 4. Roles: Who did what? Instructor, student workers, CITL? Along with Lia Plakans (a former Ohio University Faculty member), I developed the underlying curriculum and the instructional materials, as well as the software itself. The multimedia component of the software was created using Hyperstudio®, a powerful and easy to use tool for creating multimedia projects. The web based support material was also authored by Lia and myself. Robert Butler (an Art School Alumnus) assisted us with aspects of design and layout. 5. Results: Were goals reached or modified? The goals that we set out to reach have been realized as far as our use of the material as a text for a locally delivered course. The course has been offered on campus in an online format that provides great flexibility for meetings, as well as fewer hours spent in traditional class meetings throughout the quarter. Due to extraneous issues of delivering courses at a distance, we have yet to realize the potential for the course as a pure distance learning environment. 6. Problems: What difficulties did you face? What would you do differently? Advice for other professors? We have had some difficulties regarding the cross platform flexibility of both Hyperstudio® and Blackboard. Many of the original materials were designed for use in a Macintosh environment and were then transferred over for use within a Windows environment and this has caused some problems. While setting the CD-based material to integrate with the Blackboard website we noticed that it is designed to work only with Windows. I have recently begun a similar project and I am creating everything to be html based instead of relying on a proprietary application such as Hyperstudio®.