Developing innovative web-lecturing technology and online courses at Bradley University

The state-of-the-art InterLabs Web-lecturing tool has been designed, developed, and tested at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems and the InterLabs Research Institute, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois, U.S.A. as a part of the National Science Foundation grant # 0196015 (2000-2003) [1,2]. It is based on active utilization of innovative Web-based software engineering, portal, multiagent, streaming multimedia, communication, teaching, learning and information technologies. The introductory "Computer Information Systems" CIS 102 course is a required course for students of many major areas in Engineering, Business, Science or Education. The recently developed innovative online CIS102 course was aimed to (1) provide students of various major areas with highest-possible learning convenience, and (2) meet different requirements for the CIS102 course of various Bradley departments. Student formative and summative evaluations and academic performance clearly demonstrate the advantages of the innovative online teaching and learning technologies based on the InterLabs Web-lecturing tool.