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June 1, 2004
| June 1, 2004 Distance Education Report full PDF issue |
| Lessons from the Field: What eArmyU Can Teach Distance Education Providers By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Distance education administrators who find it challenging to deal with students who are of varying ages and educational levels, who move around a lot, and who are constantly juggling high-pressure jobs should take a moment to look at eArmyU. The lessons that eArmyU teaches by its example are relevant for any distance education administrator today. |
| Top “Digital Community Colleges” Named The American Association of Community Colleges and the Center for Digital Education recently named the nation’s “top digital community colleges” in the second annual Digital Community Colleges Survey. |
| Instructional Interaction: Key to Student Persistence? The amount and method of instructional interaction with students can affect student persistence in online education, according to a study conducted by Steven Tello, associate director of distance learning, continuing studies and corporate education at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. |
| Elements of Quality in Online Education: Into the Mainstream By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti In the ten years since the birth of the Sloan Consortium, online education has come of age. Online learning is now a part of many students’ higher education experience, and blended options – combining both online and traditional elements – have become more common. This is just part of the thesis of Elements of Quality in Online Education: Into the Mainstream, the fifth volume in the Sloan-C Series. |
| Assessing Online Programs with the Balanced Scorecard By Mary Lou Santovec Because of their innovative nature and novelty, distance education programs are sometimes distrusted as more hype than substance by those in other areas of the university. How are we doing in really providing an education to our dispersed student population? And how to demonstrate it for observers outside the programs? Rosemary Du Mont finds answers by using the “Balanced Scorecard.” |
| Resources As enrollments in online courses grow, one of the challenges facing distance learning programs is identifying experienced, qualified faculty. Programs are often flooded with applications and resumes to teach online courses. Managing this workflow becomes a major task in itself. A new service called FacultyFinder.com has been created to meet these needs. |
| Survey Reveals Attitudes to Streaming Video The University of Maine Continuing and Distance Education Department began offering video streaming courses during the 2001–2002 academic year based on the standard interactive television (ITV) model — simultaneously serving on-site and distance students. In 2003 the CED and University College conducted a formal study of streaming video as a course delivery method. The results were, for some, surprising. |
