| Name: | Dr. Uli Kozok |
| Email: | Click here to email me |
| Office location: | Spalding 462 |
| Telephone: | +1(808) 956-7574 |
| Office hours: | call for appointment |
| Biography: | List of Publications CV |
| Teaching assistants: | t.b.a. |
| Course title: | Third Level Online |
| Course number: | IND 305 |
| Prerequisite(s): | IND 202 or equivalent skills in Indonesian |
This course consists of modular, thematic, proficiency-based units developed under the terms of a Department of Education grant in 2004-2005 with Dr. Uli Kozok as the principal investigator. The course is open for students, professionals, scholars, heritage learners, and others who have a proficiency level of at least intermediate. To assist you in determining your proficiency level in the Indonesian language, you should download the European Language Portfolio self-assessment grid and the self-assessment checklist. Prior to enrolment you must complete the UHM placement test for the Indonesian Language based on the European Language Portfolio self-assessment checklist. You can download these forms at http://www.hawaii.edu/indolang/distance.html
IND 305 is aimed for speakers with at least intermediate proficiency in Indonesian. The objectives of this course are to progress linguistically, as well as to develop an awareness of the contemporary social context; there will be an even balance between language and content. The course will familiarize students with the language of the media as employed in the contemporary Indonesian press and promoting the development of strong reading and writing skills at both colloquial and formal levels.
The e-course will enable participating students to advance their proficiency in Indonesian towards a truly advanced level.
Distance education takes place when teacher and student are separated by physical distance, and technology (i.e., voice, video, data, and print) is used to bridge the instructional gap. Distance education courses reach those disadvantaged by limited time, distance or physical disability. Research comparing distance education to traditional face-to-face instruction indicates that teaching and studying at a distance can be as effective as traditional instruction, when the method and technologies used are appropriate to the instructional tasks, there is student-to-student interaction, and when there is timely teacher-to-student feedback.
If you find it difficult to attend a traditionally scheduled course while simultaneously working and raising a family, online classes may be for you. One of the primary advantages of online classes is that you can attend class in the comfort and convenience of your own home or office. Online courses can fit into your schedule - you can take them before breakfast, during lunch, late at night, or at any other time you find convenient - the choice is yours!
But, online classes aren't for everybody. Although you will remain in contact with your instructor and classmates through the course discussion areas, learning over the Internet is essentially a solitary activity. You also will need to sharpen your time management skills so you can balance studying, work, and personal demands. If you crave face-to-face interaction or cannot take the responsibility to complete your lessons in a timely manner, you will probably fare better in a classroom environment.
The general structure of the course is simple. Every week we will read and discuss between one and three readings from the contemporary Indonesian press, and covering a broad range of topics. The reading assignments and all related materials, exercises, tasks, assignments, and even all quizzes and tests are available on the UH WebCT homepage. Students are advised to familiarize themselves with WebCT, which is the learning management system that we use for this course. WebCT is a user friendly learning management system, and using it is a pretty straightforward process, which does not require any technical knowledge. To discover all the possibilities WebCT offers to students, you may want to check out the following website: http://www.hawaii.edu/dlit/webctresource/htmpages/studentaccessingwebct.html
Basically the only thing you need is a reliable access to the Internet, preferably broadband access, but dial-up will do too. You can work on your own or a public computer, and since the materials are also available in hardcopy you do not need to sit in front of the computer at all times! In fact, you can do most of the exercises, assignments etc. offline, and then connect to the Internet to submit your contributions. We recommend using the free Mozilla/Firefox as your browser (www.mozilla.org) since it is faster than Internet Explorer and allows for tab browsing. Students using Macintosh computers can also use Safari.
Please do not start reading the reading assignments before you have completed the pre-reading activities (normally Latihan 1). Before each reading assignment students will be given certain pre-reading tasks. We will typically use the online Discussion Forum for these sessions that involve brain storming, vocabulary gathering, eliciting expectations on a certain topic, etc. Students are required to actively participate in these discussions and to regularly post contributions to our discussion forum and respond to other students' postings. You may start a new discussion threat, and if there is none, the instructor will post a new threat to which you should respond. Although this is an online course where students will most likely never meet physically, the discussion forum will provide a substitute for the lack of a physical classroom, and it is important that students make meaningful contributions to the discussion forum. Please note that 20% of your total grade is based on your contributions to the discussion forum and the internal email system provided by WebCT (you don't even need to have your own email account).
The discussion forum is asynchronous, which means that you can post a message at any time, regardless in what time zone you live. Occasionally, the instructor may group students within a similar time zone into a chat room for synchronous discussions on a particular subject.
Weekly or fortnighly
quizzes 40%
Writing assignments 40%
Virtual classroom contributions 20%
The percentage allocated for each quiz varies slightly from quiz to quiz. Some quizzes are a bit longer than others and hence they count a little bit more towards your final grade. All quizzes will be held on a Tuesday. You can sit the quizzes at any time of the day, but remember that we use Standard Hawaiian Time. Make sure that you do not miss a quiz when you live in a different time zone. Please remember to click the save button after each question. Quizzes are timed and generally you are given only about 10 minutes to complete the quiz. When the time is over you cannot submit the quiz anymore, nor are you able to save the questions you already answered!
For each writing assignment you can get up to five points. I correct all writing assignments and return them to your drop box. Make sure to retrieve the corrected writing assignment, and look carefully at my corrections and comments. You will not get the full amount of five points if you continue to make the same mistake over and over again (meaning that you did not pay attention to my corrections).
Active participants in the online course can get up to 20% credit for their contributions, especially in the discussion forum. WebCt also monitors students engagement in other areas, e.g. the exercises. The exercises are not graded, and you do not get punished when your answer is wrong. Even when you score 0% in an exercise, this will not effect your final grade. What counts is that you have done the exercises.
Students are expected to spend at least six hours per week on this course, including reading and writing assignments.
I am always open to your suggestions and criticisms about anything related to this class, and invite any of you to drop me an email or to call me during standard office hours should you have recommendations or problems you wish to discuss. I'd prefer to hear about the problems in the course during the semester, when we can deal with them, rather than in course evaluations, when it's too late to change things.
Periodically I will check with you about how you think the course is progressing, how the course is organised, how the marking is working so that you will have ample opportunity to help shape the way that we work together.