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February 1, 2007
| Distance Education Report - February 1, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Why Athabasca Chose Moodle The open-source movement picks up more momentum each time an influential institution throws its weight behind it. And distance education institutions don’t come much more influential than Canada’s Athabasca University. |
| Countdown to a Successful Program OK, so you’ve been given the charge of starting a new distance degree or certification program. Fine. What do you do now? There are places you can go and people you can turn to. Judith Boettcher, consultant and lecturer at the University of Florida, is one of them. She has a four-point framework and a two-year timetable to keep you on course and to remind you of the things you need to remember. Her plan is a guide for the perplexed, and she’s happy to share it. Based on a framework of four elements, her model is called the “Countdown Guide for Planning Distance Degrees.” |
| Judith Boettchers Countdown Guide for Planning Distance Degree Programs This timetable describes six major phases of the planning and development of the degree, and assumes a launch of the program in 24 months. Each of the phases describes tasks in five major areas of planning a distance-learning program. |
| The Virtual Faculty Lounge: Providing Online Faculty Development for Adjunct Instructors By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti More and more, Ohio’s two-year colleges are turning to adjunct instructors to teach their courses. These instructors bring a wealth of real-world experience and subject-matter expertise to their time in the classroom. However, they often lack the knowledge of pedagogical and learning theory that their full-time counterparts may have obtained as part of their preparation to teach, or in subsequent faculty-development opportunities. Further, the adjunct population is typically a busy one, with demands from full-time jobs, making it difficult to take time out during normal business hours for continuing education. |
| Resources Theory and Practice of Online Learning Back in 1982, one reviewer hailed Athabasca University’s book Learning at a Distance: A World Perspective as “a miracle of educational publishing.” Open and distance learning has evolved through several mutations since then, and Athabasca has now brought things up to date with a guide to the theory and practice of online learning. |
