Distance Education Report

Technology offers professors a variety of supports not possible even a few years ago. For example, to discover whether or not students are plagiarizing material, professors can use several different software programs that compare the content students are submitting with material posted on the Web.The question, of course, is how effective are they?

GAO Sting Operation for Online Learning at 15 For-profit Universities

New Batch of Open Online Learning Classes from Stanford

Study: As Enrollment Rises, Institutions See Online Learning as a ‘Critical Part’ of Growth

Online Learning In Presidential Politics? Gingrich To Teach Free Online Course From White House If Elected

How a Professor Gave a Blind Student a New Outlook on Science

The university website presents a “virtual face” to the world, conveying information and a perception of the institution to the user.  To determine how useful this virtual face is to one of the most important populations of users – students – Katrina A. Meyer of the University of Memphis and Stephanie Jones of Texas Tech University conducted a study of graduate students in online and blended programs at their institution.  Their findings are important for all of those who depend on the web to reach out to these distance students.

Does your organization make grants available for distance learning students?

To help make quality online education accessible and affordable the Sloan-C community shares techniques, strategies, and practices in online education that have worked for them. All effective practices are peer reviewed to insure quality and effectiveness. Sloan-C  reviewers look for five pillars of quality in the practices they select: access, learning effectiveness, faculty satisfaction, student satisfaction, and scale.Here is one of the practices they selected in 2011.