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February 15, 2007
| Distance Education Report - February 15, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Who Says You Cant Make Money Doing This? How to Interest Your Faculty in Profiting from Online Courses The University of North Texas (UNT) has the largest online program in Texas, and that’s not an accident. They don’t have nearly the problem some places do with finding willing professors to teach online and to create new courses. Why? Because they acknowledge their professors’ intellectual property rights to the courses they create, and they remunerate the professors for those rights. |
| University of Phoenix Taps into Associate Degree Market The University of Phoenix is making inroads into the community college market by offering six online associate degree programs—accounting, business, criminal justice, general studies, health administration, and information technology—through its Axia College. |
| A Conversation with Deborah Harrison, Center for Distance Learning Research By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti In 1991, the Center for Distance Learning Research (CDLR) was established as an official center of Texas A&M University’s (TAMU) College of Education. The CDLR is dedicated to “transform[ing] education by developing distance education applications, by supporting research and evaluation, and by providing timely and appropriate professional development, technical assistance, and consultation.” The Center offers its services to both public and private entities. |
| Leading Your Faculty to Accessibility They had to get accessible fast at Erie Community College in New York. Their distance program had been growing rapidly. And no sooner had they hired Martha Dixon to oversee the program, than the director of their disabled student services office told her that they were advising disabled student not to take distance learning courses because they would have a “difficult time.” This is not something that a distance education administrator wants to hear. |
| Working a Courseware Migration with Online Faculty Change is inevitable, but not usually well-received, especially if you work in a technoverse of online learning and teaching. Alas, the ever looming angst of knowing that once you’ve gotten used to one courseware version, another will eventually come behind it! |
