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March 1, 2007
| Distance Education Report - March, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| The Power of an Online Companion: Lessons for Supporting Distance Learners By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Anita Crawley, distance learning counselor and professor, has taken an interesting path to her current position at Montgomery College in Germantown, Md. With degrees in both technology and counseling, and a background to match, she seems ideally suited to her present work and her interest in providing support, counseling, and advising to distance learning students. |
| Will Regulation Make a Brighter Future for Distance Education? Distance education administrators have to look in many directions. While one eye is turned toward faculty and students, another has to be watching the rest of the world. Events at the state and federal levels will affect their programs, directly or indirectly. |
| Who Should Develop an Online Course? Selecting or Accepting an Invitation to Be the Subject Matter Expert By Dr. Carole Hruskocy - Regis University, Distance Learning Online course development is an arduous task that includes a variety of roles, responsibilities, and decisions. One of the most important decisions in this process is the selection of the subject matter expert, or SME. Proper selection of the SME can help minimize problems throughout course development. |
| Web 2.0 and Distance Education at Columbia’s Teacher’s College Teacher’s College, Columbia University’s famous graduate school of education, has created a “knowledge network” using the principles of Web 2.0 to serve as the foundation for a distance learning community. In doing this, they have employed some of the latest thinking about the potentials of the Internet as a way to show a piece of the future for distance learning. |
