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November 1, 2006
| Distance Education Report - November 1, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| The Concentric Support Model: How Administrators Can Plan and Support Effective Distance Learning Programs What is necessary to support a quality distance education program? Many institutions initiate a program without having a clear, systematic idea of what is involved. Dr. Elizabeth Osika, Instructional Technologist in the Office of Distance Learning at Chicago State University, has done a comprehensive review of the literature and developed a clear, easy-to-understand model of the layers of support necessary to undergird the central interaction between teacher and student. |
| Distance Learning in the Next Decade: Looking Through a Disruptive Innovations Lens By Najmuddin Shaik, PhD Continued from Distance Education Report, October 15, 2006 In Part 1, Naj Shaik looked at the basic applications involved in distance education and considered both the new commercial solutions as well as the free or open source solutions that are changing the field. Here is his conclusion. |
| Its All in the DNA: The Holistic Quality Thread at Virginia Tech By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Virginia Tech is a large and thriving university. Nestled in its rural setting it boasts over 26,000 students in 180 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Further, the university has been involved with distance learning since 1983, nearly a quarter of a century. In this time, the distance education program has grown to encompass nearly 84,000 enrollments in more than 3,000 course offerings, with over 600 different e-learning courses offered. |
| A Video Update for Non-Technicians One of the developments in distance education in recent years has been the return of video – long plagued by quality problems – in online classes. New technology, especially video over internet protocol, or VOIP (not to be confused with voice over internet protocol), has improved the quality of video and made it a more usable and useful medium for distance education –- both for teleconferencing and the use of video in online courses. |
