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May 15, 2006
| Distance Education Report May 15, 2006 full issue PDF … |
| Surviving Success: Lessons from the eCore Program at the University of Georgia By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti When a university begins a distance education initiative, “too much success” is usually the least of the anticipated worries. But when the University of Georgia system developed eCore, its electronic core curriculum, it found that great demand and rapid growth presented a variety of challenges the system would have to master in order for eCore to survive. |
| Taking a Holistic View of Student Retention Distance education has opened up opportunities for more nontraditional students than ever. With this increase in nontraditional students and the growing use of online course delivery methods comes a need to develop student retention strategies that are tailored to these students’ experiences, which often are quite different from those of traditional-age students in face-to-face settings. |
| Constructing the Smart Classroom at State Fair Community College By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Increasingly, distance education is not an either/or dichotomy between studying completely online and studying in a wholly traditional classroom. More and more, students are opting to add at least one distance delivery course to a traditional schedule, and traditional courses are using online and distance delivery technologies to enrich the student experience, creating a new product known as a hybrid course. |
| Listening to the Unheard Voices of Distance Education There’s a perception on the part of those who work in the trenches of distance education — the IT people, the instructional designers, and the faculty who teach the courses — that their needs and viewpoints are not necessarily taken into account as the administration makes the decisions that will affect their work. |
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| Quality of Instruction Needs Improvement, Online Learners Say Colleges and universities are doing a good job preparing online learners to participate in the distance learning environment, say the results of a new student satisfaction survey. However, these institutions also face challenges regarding quality of instruction and faculty availability and feedback. |
