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January 15, 2007
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| Teaching the Net Gen: 6 Lessons for Distance and Traditional Education By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Those working with traditional age college students know that each generation brings its own unique personality and challenges. The “NetGen,” of which today’s 21-year old is a member, is no different, with a host of differences brought about in large part by technology. If Baby Boomers were shaped by television, typewriters, and the telephone, with a focus on family, and Generation X was the individualist generation shaped by video games, computers, and email, then the NetGen is a group of online communicators whose world has been defined by the web, cell phones, instant messaging, and MP3s. |
| Integrating Distance Ed Programs into the Institution Do you ever feel that your program sits at the margins of your institution? Feel like a bit of an afterthought? Well, you’re not alone, says Maggie Murdock, Associate Vice President and Dean of the Outreach School at the University of Wyoming. The folks who run distance education programs often feel that they’re an add-on to their institutions, not quite part of the central mission of the school. |
| Building the Inclusive Library: Implications for Distance Education By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Many a school child has been raised to think of the library as a wonderful place to explore fanciful worlds, discover interesting facts, and experiencing the life-transforming power of reading. But when these children grow up and become distance education professionals, it is easy for them to overlook the library’s potential role in allowing students with all types of mental and physical abilities and challenges to access distance learning. |
| Social Authoring: Collaboration Makes Better Courseware Time Magazine has just named “You” as Person of the Year. “You” as in all the individuals who have been empowered to create and share content via new technologies and applications like MySpace, YouTube, wikis, blogs and so on. In distance education the trend is no less pronounced. Open courseware and the whole open source movement have made fruitful collaboration among educators more possible than ever. |
