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September 1, 2006
| Distance Education Report - September 1, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| The Horizon Report: Six Predictions for Educational Technology The New Media Consortium’s (NMC) annual Horizon Report has about a 70 percent rate of success in forecasting technologies and techniques it thinks will be adopted by the higher education mainstream. |
| Online Career Counseling for Online Students You may be offering what you think is a full package of online student services, services like registration, orientation, academic advising, etc. But you may not be offering one of the key services -– career counseling -– because you don’t know what resources are available for effective online counseling. According to Bryan Baker, director of career services at Tyler Junior College, there’s no reason not to be providing excellent career counseling services to your online students. Resources available today make it possible to offer the full array of services available to your traditional students. |
| Library Services for Distance Education: Is Your Library Ready? By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Creating a successful distance education initiative is about more than what goes on in the virtual classroom. Registration, bill paying, and a variety of student support services are all equally critical to ensuring that the online student can fully participate in being a student. One of the most important of these services is the library, and, if you are like many, your university’s web page offering library services to distance students may need a little work. |
| Resources Online Assessment and Measurement: Foundations and Challenges |
| Identity Gift: The Opposite of Identity Theft? By By Aimee J. Luebben, EdD, OTR, FAOTA The media are full of scary tales of identity theft. Aware of vulnerability, people are becoming increasingly cognizant of what might happen if their electronic identities are stolen. The outcomes range from a reputation temporarily damaged to financial ruin, with increased physical and emotional stress along the way. |
