{"id":2582,"date":"2016-07-20T05:13:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/rrap104\/?page_id=2582"},"modified":"2016-07-20T05:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T05:13:10","slug":"start-here","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/rrap104\/orientation\/start-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Start here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<p><!-- WEtheme eyJwIjoiT0VSZiIsImNzcyI6ImNzc1wvZm9udC1hd2Vzb21lXC9jc3NcL2ZvbnQtYXdlc29tZS5taW4uY3NzIiwiaGVhZGVyIjoiYmx1ci5odG1sIn0= -->\n<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the fourth open online micro course of four that comprise RRAP100: Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific, <b>Tourism in Asia and the Pacific<\/b> (RRAP104).  In this micro course you will go on your own journey to introduce yourself to the regions of the Asia and the Pacific, and to the idea of relationships between people and places.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"3_things_you_should_do_before_starting_the_course\">3 things you should do before starting the course<\/span><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li> <b>Register on this course site<\/b> by clicking on the user icon ( <i class=\"fa fa-user\"><\/i>) in the site menu. <br \/>This will enable you to submit microblog posts using WEnotes and manage your registered learning journal blog url if you use one.  (Note: As an open course, registration is not mandatory and we will post copies of the <a href=\"\/rrap104\/interactions\/course-announcements\/how-announcements-work\" title=\"AST1000\/Regional relations tourism\/Announcements\">course announcements<\/a> on the course site.)\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Familiarise yourself with the web site navigation<\/b> to find out where the:\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"\/rrap104\/course-guide\/syllabus\" title=\"AST1000\/Course guide\/Regional relations tourism\/Syllabus\">Course syllabus<\/a>,\n<\/li>\n<li> Learning materials (see learning pathways in the menu above),\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Review<\/b> the:\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"\/rrap104\/course-guide\/introduction-and-aims\" title=\"AST1000\/Course guide\/Regional relations tourism\/Introduction\">Course aims<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Study_tips\">Study tips<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are a few things you should know about <b>Tourism in Asia and the Pacific<\/b> (RRAP104) course:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> <b>Course tag<\/b>: The course code for <b>Tourism in Asia and the Pacific<\/b> is: <b>RRAP104<\/b>. Write this down because you will use this tag for your blog posts.\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Course feed<\/b>: The course hosts a <a href=\"\/rrap104\/interactions\/course-feed\" title=\"AST1000\/Regional relations tourism\/Course feed\">live feed<\/a> where you can monitor posts from WEnotes and participant blog posts using the <b>RRAP104<\/b> tag or label.\n<ul>\n<li> WEnotes is the locally hosted microblog technology for posting comments to the course feed.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li> <b>Suggested study time<\/b>: This is an asynchronous course which means you can participate at times which are convenient for your own schedule.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The course is divided into <b>learning pathways<\/b>, which are part of your discovery of what you want to learn. You can use these as a means to navigate and they contain elearning activities to push your learning further. Please look in the course syllabus to see this structure.<br \/>\nLearners participating in this course for formal academic credit will need to allocate an additional 20 hours required for completion of the final assignment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can contact me on <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"mailto:marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au\">marcus.harmes@usq.edu.au<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.006 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.006 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 20\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 60\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 28\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 0\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 2\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:171035-0!*!0!!*!*!* and timestamp 20160720050925 and revision id 1006346\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/rrap104\/tourism-in-asia-and-the-pacific\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/rrap104\/orientation\/welcome-video\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the fourth open online micro course of four that comprise RRAP100: Regional Relations in Asia and the Pacific, Tourism in Asia and the Pacific (RRAP104). 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