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June 15, 2004
| June 15, 2004 Distance Education Report full issue in PDF format |
| Are You Secure? Cybersecurity in Distance Education By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Cybersecurity makes news every time a new email worm or destructive virus makes its way across the Internet, disabling individual computers and damaging networks as it goes. If you are a university-based system administrator or the director of a program that features an online learning component, you no doubt shudder each time you hear such a news report. The danger is real. But there are steps you can take to maximize the security of your network and your distance education program. |
| Unintended Consequences: Distance Learning and the Structure of the University By Brian Goode Universities rarely reflect on the ambiguous implications or unintended consequences of new technologies. They tend to share the broader cultural assumption that technology is, if not an unalloyed ‘good,’ at least neutral. This assumption is most clearly seen in the countless strategic plans that universities drafted in the past five to eight years to incorporate distance learning into their mission statements. Rarely do these strategic plans wrestle with the implications of distance learning for the structure of the university. The result is that distance learning has set in motion unseen trends and processes that threaten the integrity of the university. |
| Trends in Online Advising By Judy Dahl High-quality, accessible academic advising services are essential for student retention, but for many years few services were available online for distance education students and their faculty and advisors. Recent advances in technology, along with societal changes, have fostered the development of innovative online advising tools at institutions nationwide. |
| Resources New GAO Report: Restriction on Distance Ed Should Go; Accountability Should Stay. Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning |
| Continuous Assessment; Guaranteed Learning? Margaret Maxwell, assistant professor in special instructional programs and library media education at Western Kentucky University, says assessment strategies for online courses should match course objectives and the students’, instructor’s, and institution’s personalities — in that order. |
| Teaching Ethical Business Practice Online By Susan Gaide “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link” is the principle behind Indiana Wesleyan University’s approach to online distance education. Almost every class in IWU’s online programs requires students to work as a team on at least one group assignment or project. |
