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November 15, 2006
| Distance Education Report - November 15, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Bringing Faculty Online With Peer Mentoring The problem of bringing faculty online has dogged distance education from the early days. After the first rush of enthusiasts has climbed on board, how do you recruit the rest of them? Barbara McKenzie, chair of the department of Media and Instructional Technology at the University of West Georgia, has developed an effective response. |
| Web-based Video Lecture Courses Meet High enrollment Demand In an effort to accommodate increasing student enrollment without having to expand its physical campus, the University of Ontario at Scarborough has begun offering some of its high-enrollment, lecture-based courses via Web-delivered video lectures. |
| Creating the Entrepreneurial Student “It is a new and different concept of looking at learners,” says Connie Reimers-Hild, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension educator, of her research into distance learner motivation. |
| Integrating Ethics into Online Faculty Development: Hints from Regis University By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti What does a new faculty member need to consider as part of the preparation to teach online? Ask this question, and you are likely to receive several immediate answers: The new faculty member must know his or her subject matter, be familiar with enough pedagogical theory and practical experience to ensure good teaching, understand the technology that the university will use to deliver courses, and be familiar with university policies and procedures that the faculty member will deal with daily.This list, however, misses an essential part of the preparation to step into a classroom, whether it is traditional or virtual: ethics. |
| Resources Cost-Efficiencies in Online Learning: ASHE Higher Education Report, Vol. 32, No. 1 |
| Leading Publishers and LMS Providers Commit to Common Standard for Digital Learning Content The IMS Global Learning Consortium announced in October that a new common standard for digital educational content and e-Learning systems will soon be available in products in the marketplace. Digital educational content, learning management systems, and learning software tools incorporating the new “Common Cartridge” interoperability standard will be available from some IMS members as early as the spring of 2007. |
