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September 1, 2004
| Distance Education Report September 1, 2004 full issue PDF … |
| What Shapes Your Distance Ed Planning Environment? By Kathleen Rinear “Distance education is really contextual,” claims Muriel Dance, director of continuing education at Antioch College in Washington State and former director of distance education at the University of Washington. |
| Videogames: A Useful Teaching Model Most faculty would agree: students tend to be better at memorizing than thinking. |
| In the News A PC Market in the Developing World?; Software evaluation publication; Microsoft seeks collaboration with higher education; Teaching the American Election |
| Student Orientation at Tarleton State Takes the Distance Out of Distance Education By Susan Gaide Students frequently come to the online environment with expectations, but without a clear understanding of what they should realistically expect from the online experience. |
| A Third-Party Partner for Your Distance Learning Program? By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Creating a successful distance learning program involves much more than selecting an existing face-to-face program and putting the content online. Marketing and recruitment are critical to making sure that the program is economically viable; while retention services help ensure student satisfaction. |
| Resources 2003 Campus Desktop Computing Survey; Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America; Combating Cheating in Online Student Assessment; Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) |
| Dont Let Technology Interfere With Learning Distance learners are not usually averse to using technology to participate effectively in their courses. They just don’t want it to be an obstacle. |
