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April 1, 2007
| Distance Education Report - April 1, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Seeking Out, Speaking For, New Learner Populations the Key to Distance Ed Leadership “The better administrators really do understand what’s going on in the future learning populations,” says Janet Poley, president and CEO of the American Distance Education Consortium, a non-profit consortium composed of 65 state universities and land-grant colleges. She’s talking about an empathetic ability to sense and identify with the various populations in need of distance education. To see where they are now and where new ones will come from. This is key to her ideas about what a distance education leader needs to do in order for programs to succeed. |
| Swedens Net University: Distance Education Utopia? Sweden’s Net University has 80,000 enrolled students choosing from 2700 courses offered by 35 universities. And it’s run by three government employees in a single office. Meanwhile the high profile “UK e-University” or UKeU in Britain has ignominiously flopped, having lost as much as £62 million and peaked out at registration numbers of about 900. |
| Sloan Survey Pt. 2: A Pattern of Growth, With Stubborn Obstacles, for Distance Ed (This concludes the interview with Jeff Seaman and Elaine Allen, co-authors of "Making the Grade: Online Education in the United States, 2006.") |
| Do You Really Understand Your Students? Answers About Student Preferences in Technology By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti So you think you understand your students’ technology preferences? How about a quick test – name the top three digital devices lurking in your students’ backpacks. If you had to contact your students on an emergency basis, what medium would you use? When you walk into class on the first day of the term, what assumptions can you make about your students’ technology savvy? |
| Notes Latest Entry on ELI “7 Things You Should Know About Creative Commons” is the latest entry in the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative’s (ELI) treasure-trove of resources. Creative Commons is an alternative to traditional copyright, developed by a nonprofit organization of the same name. |
