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October 1, 2004
| Distance Education Report October 1, 2004 full issue PDF … |
| Take Your Strengths Online — and Transform Your Institution By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti In 1969, Sangamon State University in Springfield, Ill. was founded with a mission to provide to provide upper division baccalaureate and master’s degree programs to a regional student body. This began to change in 1995 when Sangamon State became part of the University of Illinois system... The next step was to change UIS’s programs and campus culture to help the university achieve national visibility and reach. For this, UIS would turn to its online efforts to reach students across the country and around the globe. |
| Questions Students Need to Ask Before Taking an Online Course Because student attrition is a big issue in online learning, it’s up to instructors and their institutions to help students assess whether the online classroom will be a good match for them. |
| Feds Fine University of Phoenix $9.8 Million In the largest fine ever imposed by the United States Department of Education, federal regulators have fined the University of Phoenix — the nation’s largest for-profit (mostly online) university — $9.8 million. |
| Faculty Attitude, Preparation: The Implications for Courses Two studies -- one that looked at how faculty characteristics affect online course quality and learning effectiveness; and another that looked at the relationship between perceptions of online learning environments (OLE's) vs. their reasons for using OLEs -- offer findings that could be helpful in developing faculty training programs. |
| Transforming High-Demand Courses: The Stakes Are High By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti It is common to see technology integrated into a university course. Less common is the use of technology to truly transform courses. This is the mission of Andrew White, director of educational technologies at the University of Missouri, Columbia. |
| Resources DETC Course Development Handbook, 4th edition; Learning Object Repositories |
| In the News Policy Roundtable Series: Strategies for U.S.- Developing Country Collaboration in Distance Education (2003) (Updated 8/31/04); Uniform Standards for Federal Websites Closer; Wi-fi policy at UT-Dallas has students, administration at odds; British Library Puts Early Versions of Shakespeare Online; Nonprofit Organization to Collect, Distribute Online Courses |
