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July 15, 2006
| Distance Education Report - July 15, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Make the Most of Your Content Dollars — Access the National Repository Trying to set up and maintain a distance education program all on your own can be an exercise in frustration unless you have a budget capable of paying for high-quality content. And all too often that’s not the case, says Terri Rowenhorst, director of partner development at the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education. Many institutions, recognizing the problem, have tried collaborative content development and other means of sharing resources on a state or regional basis. But there is an alternative for accessing high-quality content from excellent programs, and on a national level, too — the nonprofit National Repository of Online Courses (NROC). |
| The Rewards of Putting the Liberal Arts Online One could be forgiven for the assumption that the average distance education student is probably in some career training or certification program. But the pioneers of Web-based distance education always believed that online education could take on more of the academic course load. Providing a liberal arts education online has its own set of challenges and its own set of rewards. The next time you’re planning an expansion of your DE offerings, you might consider expanding into a liberal arts curriculum. And if you do, an example you might want to follow is that of Boston University’s Metropolitan College. |
| How Does Your University Compare? The 2006 State of Continuing Education Marketing Report from Penn State By By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Marketing is a continual concern and an ever-increasing demand on the time and budgets of all sorts of organizations. Higher education is no exception. Getting the most utility out of every marketing dollar and targeting scarce staff resources appropriately are always challenging. |
| Service Center: A Strategy to Promote Student Retention By Najmuddin Shaik Service Center is a Web-based Student Relationship Management (SRM) application developed by the staff of the Division of Academic Outreach, Office of Continuing Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The goal is to facilitate long-term relationships with students and promote student retention by providing consistent, personalized, quality value-added services to students, faculty, and campus administrative units. |
