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January 1, 2007
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| Successfully Purchasing New Technology Christine Lustik, Director for Distance Education at Western Wyoming Community College(WWCC), has a warning for tech-happy administrators. “It’s easy to feel that the more money you spend the more quality you’re getting. It’s too easy nowadays to forget the beginning rule of technology, to always aim at the lowest level of Internet connection.” Lustik believes that acquiring new technology is not just a purchase, but a process. It’s the process that will determine whether you get a program that will really meet the needs of faculty, student s and program -- or a very expensive, very high tech white elephant. |
| Reducing the Risk: Effects of a First Year Experience Course for Non-Traditional Students By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti It comes as no surprise to those who work with distance learning populations to hear that these students are typically dealing with different challenges than are their traditional-age, on-campus peers. According to the most recent National Survey of Student Engagement, distance education students are typically older, work many hours a week, and are often supporting families. However, this very profile can place these students at risk for not continuing in their studies or for not being successful. |
| One Instructional Designer Across 13 Universities Peggy Brown is the Dean of Information Studies and instructional technology analyst at Syracuse University. When she first applied for a grant to fund the Web-Based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium, to provide graduate-level library and information science curriculum online, she couldn’t have predicted what she was getting into. |
| Different Perspectives on Distance Education: Faculty vs. Administrator There’s no question that faculty and administrators have different perspectives on distance education, but there has been little research on the ways in which these differences play out. To better understand the interactions between these groups, Claudine Keenan, a doctoral student in the University of Massachusetts higher education leadership program and executive assistant to the provost at Richard Stockton State College in New Jersey, compared the language used by faculty and administrators at three institutions that had recently launched or planned to launch complete (degree or certificate) online programs. |
| Illinois Global Campus Project Hits Some Snags Six months after the University of Illinois debuted plans for the Global Campus – an independent degree-granting online university on the order of Penn State’s World Campus -- faculty, students and administrators are weighing in with input, cautions and questions about the program's details. In December, members of the UI Senate – made up of faculty and students -- heard a report by the Senate's Global Campus Task Force. The report stated that it could not support the plan as it currently stands. |
