NATCHITOCHES - Northwestern State University’s Office of Electronic and Continuing Education has a program that makes it easy to take high-quality, noncredit online courses. NSU has partnered with ed2go to offer hundreds of online, instructor-facilitated courses including "Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis, and Podcasts."

     With hands-on activities in each lesson, this course guides students through the process of creating and maintaining blogs, wikis, and audio and video podcasts. Through hands-on activities, students discover how these Web 2.0 tools can be used for personal, business, educational, and political projects.

           

      This course is part of the Office of Electronic and Continuing Education's growing catalog of more than 300 instructor-facilitated online courses. Through well-crafted lessons, expert online instruction, and interaction with fellow students, participants in these courses gain valuable knowledge at their convenience. They have the flexibility to study at their own pace combined with enough structure and support to complete the course. And they can access the classroom 24/7 from anywhere with an Internet connection.

           

     New sessions of each course run every month. The courses last six weeks and two new lessons are released weekly for a total of 12. The courses are entirely Web-based with comprehensive lessons, quizzes and assignments. A dedicated professional instructor facilitates every course; pacing learners, answering questions, giving feedback and facilitating discussions.

           

     To learn more, call the Office of Electronic and Continuing Education at (800) 376-2422 or (318) 357-5682 or visit them online at http://ece.nsula.edu/non-credit/.