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May 1, 2007
| Nine Steps to On-Campus/Online Parity How can you assure parity between a distance program and its face-to-face counterpart? Is it possible to guarantee identical outcomes with two such different means of delivery? In some programs, some educators may settle for a rough equivalence. But what about when parity of outcomes is absolutely essential? What about a discipline like pharmacy, where the presence or absence of certain competencies can be life and death matters? |
| Distance Education Report - May 1, 2007 - Full Issue PDF … |
| Get Your Retention Act Together Now: 8 Pieces of Advice Retention remains the Achilles’ heel of distance education. Estimates of the failed retention rate for distance education undergraduates range from 20 to 50 percent. Distance education administrators believe the failed retention rate for online courses may be 10 to 20% higher than for face-to-face courses. |
| An Internet2 FAQ for Distance Education Professionals By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti By now, virtually everyone in higher education – and indeed, in all industries – is comfortable with the power of the internet for working and communicating over distances. But, even a decade after its inception, many people are still unfamiliar with Internet2. To answer some of the most common questions that distance learning professionals may have about Internet2, we spoke with Robert Dixon, chief research engineer at Ohio State University and OARNet, a user and heavily involved member of Internet2. |
| Assessment for the Millennial Generation Fresh assessment techniques are needed to gauge student learning in online classes, Julie Giuliani says. Giuliani is the executive dean of the Virtual College at Florida Community College-Jacksonville(FCCJ), which serves some 39,000 distance students. Giuliani has what she refers to as “a passion for assessment.” |
