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July 1, 2004
| Full July 1 issue of Distance Education Report in PDF format |
| We should be constantly dissatisfied with what were doing. An Interview with Frank Mayadas of Sloan-C By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Frank Mayadas has had a dramatic impact on the field of online learning. He is president of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), a group of about 750 institutions and organizations focused on online education. In 1993, he started the Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) program for Sloan-C. Both organizations have been focuses of leading edge though about distance education. Recently, Distance Education Report spoke with Mayadas about the present and future of distance education. |
| Program Alliance Pools Expertise, Resources to Meet Student Demand Distance education has encouraged many institutions to think beyond their campuses, not only in terms of the students they reach but also in terms of the institutions they work with to develop and offer academic programs. |
| In the News Interactive Math Tutor Is Best Higher Ed Software Tool Distance Education Scholarship Announced HEA Reauthorization Hearing Discusses Equity for Students at For-Profits |
| Mainstreaming DE Spurs Phenomenal Growth By Judy Dahl In 1995 Rio Salado College’s distance education program served just a couple thousand students. Since then, the program has seen double-digit annual growth as high as 40 percent, with over 21,000 students enrolled at a given time. |
| Resources UMUC-Verizon Virtual Resource Site for Teaching with Technology Quality Enhancing Practices in Distance Education: Student Services Handbook of Distance Education for Adult Learners, Second Edition |
| Reusing Learning Objects: Improving Instructional Design, Reducing Costs at Athabasca U. By By Susan Gaide Reusing learning objects, rather than recreating them for each individual online course, is improving instructional design and reducing costs at Athabasca University, Canada’s open university. However, several challenges still need to be overcome by online institutions in order to effectively utilize learning objects, repositories and metadata for optimal delivery of online DE. |
