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March 15, 2007
| Distance Education Report - March 15, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Sloan Survey Finds Growth, Obstacles for Distance Education In their largest study to date, the Sloan Consortium says that online learning is continuing to grow without any sign of a plateau. There were 3.2 million students who took at least one course online in 2005,(the last year for which complete data is available) up from 2.3 million the previous year. Forty-four hundred schools were contacted for the survey, every school on the Federal Inventory of Higher Education, and with more than 55% responding, a picture of the growth and acceptance of distance education in the United States emerged. |
| Horizon Report Identifies Six Higher Ed Learning Technologies to Watch The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have just released the 2007 Horizon Report. The annual Horizon Report, as have previous editions of the report, identifies six emerging technologies that the underlying research suggests will become very important to higher education over the next one to five years. The six selected areas for 2007 are: user-created content, social networking, mobile phones, virtual worlds, new scholarship and emerging forms of publication, and multiplayer educational gaming. |
| The Tipping Point: The Moment that Transforms an Institution In the language of public health, the “tipping point” is the point at which an outbreak becomes an epidemic--where the individual occurrences “spread by small changes that reproduce themselves and expand in geometric progression, grow bigger until they reach a ‘critical mass.’ Thereafter, any additional change alters the equilibrium and tips the system so that the disease becomes an epidemic.” The idea of the tipping point applies to the long-term acceptance of distance education within an institution, making it a permanent or even dominant part of the institution. |
| Reflections from the Front Line: A Conversation with Darcy Hardy By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Dr. Darcy W. Hardy is Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Executive Director of the UT TeleCampus, the virtual university of The University of Texas System that supports online delivery of System-wide collaborative academic programs from UT institutions. |
