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April 15, 2006
| Distance Education Report - April 15, 2006 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Seeing Where the Distance Education Opportunities Lie The decision to launch a new online program is a daunting one. But it can be made easier by asking the right questions and getting the necessary answers. |
| Bringing Louisiana Back with Distance Learning “We have to reinvent Louisiana,” says Mike Abbiatti, Associate Commissioner for Information and Learning Technology for the Louisiana Board of Regents. “Part of how we do that is e-learning.” |
| A Roadmap for Training Instructional Designers Did you ever wonder where that invaluable instructional designer of yours got her training? The odds say she’s never had any formal training at all. |
| Online Teaching Got Me Out of the Box By By Carolyn Speer Schmidt, PhD For 13 years, I taught college students in a traditional classroom. The face-to-face discussion was rewarding, and I had no plans to give it up. But life intervened. Now I find myself living several hundred miles away from the university I called home and teaching exclusively online. |
| Proctoring Assessments: Benefits & Challeneges By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti One of the thorniest problems in distance learning is how to manage the delivery of examinations, especially in regard to proctoring. Students at remote locations, whether they are in a dorm across campus or a city across the country, are often left to their own devices when taking quizzes and exams. Not only does this open the door to consultation of inappropriate resources, it also diminishes the benefits that a timed, supervised test may have for the educational process. |
| New Books Teach Beyond Your Reach: An Instructor's Guide to Developing and Running Successful Distance Learning Classes, Workshops, Training Sessions and More |
