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October 15, 2006
| Distance Education Report - October 15, 2006 - Fulll Issue PDF … |
| Eight Facts to Know About What Bothers Your Distance Education Faculty, and What Keeps them Coming Back By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti When Jennifer McLean, director of instructional technology and distance learning for the Pennsylvania College of Technology, looked through the existing literature on distance education, she found many studies and articles addressing the needs of students and how to retain them. Unfortunately, she found very few mentions of studies of the faculty experience, and here she saw a gap that impacted her work as a distance learning administrator. |
| In The News University of Illinois to Found “Global University” At a meeting in September, University of Illinois president B. Joseph White told trustees that “The time has come to write a next major chapter in the development of the University of Illinois. ” White proposed doing that by implementing an extensive online degree program, tentatively known as the Global Campus. |
| Training 60,000 Faculty to Go Online John Whitmer and his @One (pronounced at-one) group had to teach 60,000 faculty how to operate online. That’s the total number of faculty and staff in the whole California Community College (CCC) System -- all 110 schools and 72 district offices. |
| Distance Learning in the Next Decade: Looking Through a Disruptive Innovations Lens By Najmuddin Shaik, Ph.D. Disruptive innovations especially in three domains such as the Open Source applications (Linux, Apache, Tomcat, Croquet, Sakai, Moodle, Wiki, Merlot, LON-CAPA, National Open Courseware Repositories, Sofia, ConneXions, Game Engines, Mambo, uPortal etc); the convergence of digital technologies (VoIP, PDA, iPods, SmartPhones etc), and alternative Copyright models (GNU Freeware, Creative Commons) - offer challenges and exciting opportunities to distance learning administrators. |
| Resources E-Learning and Disability in Higher Education: Accessibility Research and Practice |
