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August 15, 2004
| Distance Education Report August 15, 2004 full issue PDF … |
| Strategies for 100 Percent Retention: Feedback, Interaction By Judy Dahl Student retention levels in the “Online Technology in Education” master’s degree program at Lesley University, Cambridge, Mass., consistently reach nearly 100 percent. According to Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder, Lesley’s director of online learning, students consistently cite three factors that lead them to stay in the program. |
| In the News Labor Dept. Settles Second Suit against University of Phoenix; New Study: Web-based Courses Producing Measurable Gains in High-Level Learning |
| Criteria for Evaluating Online Courses This set of criteria for comprehensively assessing and evaluating online courses was developed by the Educational Resources Evaluation Services of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. It evaluates a course from a full 360 degrees of criteria, including: .Teacher Interaction .Course Content .Student Site .Teaching Site .Student Evaluation .Teacher Evaluation .Course Evaluation |
| Flash Can Enhance Online Courses Incorporating Flash, a vector-graphic animation technology, into a web-based course is one way of increasing interactivity and enhancing the online learning experience. Since it does not require end-users to have high-bandwidth connections and since it is already installed in 98 percent of web browsers, it’s a technology that most students will have little trouble using. |
| Strategies for Encouraging Faculty Buy-In By Mary Lou Santovec The greatest challenge in implementing distance education is generally not a technical one -- it’s a human one. The challenge manifests itself in faculty’s resistance to change -– a change in faculty roles, a need for new development and training. This is despite the fact that faculty who have worked as distance education instructors view the experience more favorably than those who have not. So how can an institution get more faculty participation? |
| Resources Resources for Moderators and Facilitators of Online Discussion; Online Learning: Concepts, Strategies and Application |
| Building a Learning Community Throughout a Program Nova Southeastern University’s master’s in Health Law program is designed to encourage the creation of learning communities in which students view each other as partners rather than isolated individuals who happen to be working toward similar goals. |
