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November 15, 2004
| Full November 15, 2004 issue of Distance Education Report in PDF format … |
| Strategies to Ensure Quality By Mary Lou Santovec Successful online programs exhibit two specific characteristics – high quality course content and faculty that actively engage their students. How can a college ensure that its online programs exhibit these features? Robert Green, associate director of instructional technology in the Center for Online and Continuing Education at Champlain College (Vt.), has proposed a series of quality standards for developing, delivering and administering courses in the school’s online program. “The goal was to raise the bar across… |
| Survey Names Top 25 “Connected Campuses” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, N.Y., tops a list of the 25 “most connected” colleges and universities in the U.S., according to a recent survey by The Princeton Review. The second annual study of the "25 Most Connected Campuses," examines the technological capabilities of the nation's higher education institutions. |
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| Online MBA Orientation Program: Some Best Practices By Kam Jugdev, Ph.D., PMP and Maureen Hutchison The online executive MBA program at Athabasca University’s Centre for Innovative Management is celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2004. In that time, we have acquired an excellent understanding of helpful practices for delivering an online, distance education program, and we are continually learning with each new intake of MBA students. |
| Are Technical Skills “Core Competencies?” How Do We Measure Them? “Technological literacy…has become as fundamental to a person's ability to navigate through society as traditional skills like reading, writing, and arithmetic,” said the U.S. Department of Education in its 1996 report titled “Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge.” |
| Resources EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference; Journal of Technology and Teacher Education; Distance Education: The Complete Guide to Design, Delivery, and Improvement; Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom |
