Hello!

Welcome to the sampler course for BMGT 1023 IT Project Management at Austin Community College.This course is designed and developed by Bob Futrell. It is our foundation skills course to help students prepare for the PMI PMP® certification.

This course is available both onsite and online. Both of the courses are individual-effort college-type class with mostly lectures and between-class readings from a single main textbook (the same book in each version of the course) with a mid-term and final exam as measurement. Both use the same text and Powerpoint slides which closely follow the textbook. And both versions have a session where the principles can be applied using simulator software (from Fissure). Exams are done on paper for the onsite course, and through BlackBoard for the online course. The online course also includes a short (10 question) quiz on each unit as practice also, as well as some discussion topics posted in a blog. There is no group project in the onsite course (other than the simulation night session with the Fissure software). But the online version requires some collaborative effort with a virtual team (other classmates) to do some of the chapter exercises in the textbook.

For the onsite course, the instructor is “the sage on the stage”, standing in front of the class and telling you about project management. We use several instructors in the onsite version, each with different styles of teaching, and different perspectives and war stories for illustration.

For the online course, the instructor (only one of course) is more of a “guide on the side”, providing the materials, the map, and the mirror for you to use in your self-paced journey through the course. There are no scheduled activities where the students and instructor must meet in time or place in the online course. This is often a good choice for mobile workers who travel a lot, or have other reasons not to leave home very much. The online version uses ACC's online courseware tool, BlackBoard (http://acconline.austincc.edu). Note: the Adobe Flash player is necessary on your PC to view the embedded lecture presentations.

This sampler is an extract using the University of North carolina bFree extract tool. So, the look and feel will be similar to ACC's Blackboard, but not identical

Welcome Aboard! And enjoy your "Test Drive"!

Regards,

Bob McGoldrick
rmcgoldr@austincc.edu
512.223.7662