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October 15, 2004
| Distance Education Report October 15, 2004 full issue PDF … |
| Changing Faculty Perceptions of Online Workload By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti For some faculty members, concerns about workload are a deterrent to taking a step into teaching online. Perceptions that online teaching takes significantly more time than teaching in the traditional classroom abound, but little research has been done to substantiate this belief. What does research say? |
| Training the People who Train the Teachers By Mary Lou Santovec Many of the staff instructional designers who are supposed to train faculty to teach online were hired at their institutions without any previous training or knowledge of online instructional design methods. They often feel as if they’re trying to stay one step ahead of their classes. |
| Proactive Academic Advising for Distance Students By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Nearly every college student can benefit from a good relationship with an academic advisor. This relationship is even more critical, however, for the distance student. |
| Resources Integrated E-Learning: Pedagogy, Technology, and Organization; The Real Uses of IT; More Learning Object Repositories |
| Automated Advising: What Do the Kids Think? The computer science department at California State University-Dominguez Hills offers optional online academic advising to its students.Approximately half of the department’s 220 majors have used the system... They report that the advice they get is what they expected. |
| Best Practices for Helping Students Complete Online Degree Programs By Susan Gaide Institutions of higher learning are coming to see that convincing students to stay in online degree programs is even more of a challenge than trying to retain them in face-to-face programs. |
