75-minute recording of live online seminar available in CD or transcript format. Includes program handouts.

By participating in this seminar, you'll learn to:
• Define "cost effectiveness" as it relates to distance education programs and services
• Identify the factors that determine the cost effectiveness of distance education programs and services
• Describe and apply a process for identifying your key competitors
• Apply appropriate principles and practices to determine whether or not a verifiable market exists for the programs that you would like to deliver
• Identify and prioritize the different "stake holders" to be served by the distance education enterprise
• Describe and apply a process for tracking the real costs of the technical services required to deliver your programs
• Understand and apply the four strategies needed to maximize the effectiveness of your distance education enterprise
• Describe and apply a process for tracking the costs of providing appropriate academic and student support services

Meet the presenter:
Dr. Barry Willis is a professor and associate dean for Outreach for the University of Idaho's College of Engineering. Previously he served as the University of Alaska's statewide director of distance education, associate vice chancellor for distance education/academic planning, and director of instructional development. He has taught for Boston University, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Utah State University, and the University of Idaho.

Dr. Willis has authored two books, Distance Education: Strategies and Tools and Distance Education: A Practical Guide. In addition, he serves as contributing editor of the Journal of Educational Technology and is on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Distance Education. Willis serves on the Science Support Advisory Board of the United States Antarctic Program.

The CD contains an audio presentation with PowerPoint and can be viewed on any standard computer equipped with Windows Media Player. Our CDs are not compatible with Macintosh computer systems.

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