Ideas on Student Orientations for NetTel Degree Programmes

For those with students registering at your institution

Regardless of whether you teach your course this semester, each institution that has students enrolled in one or more of the NetTel courses should be prepared to provide the following information to students by beginning of each semester:

• Instructors’ name, contact information, and scheduled “office hours”
• A system for tracking details for all students enrolled in your course (i.e., names, contact information, background, grades, record of contact time with each student etc.)
• Summary of course schedule, important course policies, assignments, assessments, etc.
• Introduction to using KEWL
• Copy of NetTel’s Post Graduate Diploma Course Catalog

As part of the responsibility of the Home Institution, your institution must provide NetTel students with:

• Access to an Internet-connected computer lab
• Access to your institution’s library
• Access to a “Learning Facilitator” who will help local students liaise with the Lead Course Instructor who is located as a remote campus and with the course content in general.

It is suggested that you schedule an initial orientation meeting for all the enrolled NetTel students to cover this basic, yet important, information. Such a meeting will likely take an hour or two to properly orient students to NetTel’s eLearning design.

For those who are teaching a course for NetTel

Please note that some of the students enrolled in your course will not be physically present on your campus, instead these students will be enrolled in other institutions and you will need to make provisions for communicating with both the students and learning facilitators at each remote institution. It is necessary that you establish contact with the "Learning Facilitators" at each of the Home institutions that have students enrolled in your course before the start of each semester. It is important that you maintain contact with the "Learning Facilitators" through out the semester.