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March 1, 2006
| Distance Education Report - March 1, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Federal Funding for Distance Education Initiatives By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Universities are experiencing a funding crunch, and they have for several years. According to the paper, “Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning,” by Scott Howell, Peter Williams and Nathan Lindsay (Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, Fall 2003), the climate of economic recession that existed at the time of the article’s writing had created combined state deficits higher than those seen during the Great Depression. |
| Shaping State Policies to Advance Distance Education Distance educators fight their battles one institution at a time, and these advances are hard enough to achieve. But there is another bigger level where the fate of distance education is decided. The policy-making machinery of the states plays a crucial part in determining the growth and direction of publicly funded distance education. How can distance education advocates become players on this level? |
| Military Seizes New Ground for Distance Education The United States military saw the potential of distance learning technology from the start. With its huge variety of training needs, the military has often played a leading role in the development of distance education, pioneering innovations that have later been adopted by higher education, business and the computer gaming industry. |
| Answering the Tough Questions about Distance Ed Barry Willis has served as the University of Alaska’s statewide director of distance education and its associate vice chancellor for distance education. He has authored two textbooks, Distance Education: Strategies and Tools and Distance Education: A Practical Guide. In addition, he serves as contributing editor of the Journal of Educational Technology and is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Distance Education. Currently Willis is the University of Idaho’s associate vice president for educational outreach. What’s his take on distance education? “My premise is I’m not sure it’s worth the cost,” he says. |
