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October 1, 2006
| Survey Shows Expanding, Demanding Market for Distance Education “At the moment there seems to be no sense that the market has an obvious cap to it,” says Richard Garrett about distance education in the United States. This is good news for distance educators. But according to a new report issued by higher education consultants, Eduventures, distance educators are going to have to get smart about marketing if they want to cash in, smarter than they have been so far. |
| Distance Education Report - October 1, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| The Three Story Tower: Four Findings About Online Education in Community Colleges By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti “Community colleges are pretty close to the ground. If they’re living in an ivory tower, its only three stories high,” says Robert Threlkeld of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education. As such, community colleges are ideal locations through which to study online education, with their fast response to market demands and their sensitivity to students living with less than ideal circumstances. |
| Diversity, Equity Aid Retention By Marianne Castano Bishop Handling equity and diversity issues sensitively can be a key to retention in online programs. In asynchronous discussion forums, participants usually come from diverse backgrounds, including gender and culture, and the textual cues they post online are usually reflections of their own diversity. Such postings sometimes disclose personal information, whether the authors are consciously doing so or not. These disclosures could impact the interaction online in meaningful ways. |
| Project Management and Budgeting at the World Campus The most brilliant instructional design can’t keep an online program going without a sound budgeting and project management process supporting it. Budgeting may be a process that puts some people to sleep, but in the end, everything balances on the back of the person who balances the numbers. Penn State’s famous World Campus is no exception. |
