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December 1, 2004
| Full December 1, 2004 issue of Distance Education Report in PDF format … |
| Enhancing Leadership in Distance Education: A recent study identifies leaders ideas for improving online courses By Judy Dahl “In business, they provide more extensive training for online instructors because their bottom line is money,” says Barbara McKenzie, chair of the department of media and instructional technology at the State University of West Georgia. This observation led her to conduct a study titled “Making Distance Education Work.” |
| In the News New Study Shows National DE Mainstreaming; Penn State and Internet2 release open source code for file-sharing technology; E-Rate Funding on Hold; West Virginia Plans Largest Public Computing Grid |
| Networks for the People: Closing the Digital Divide in El Paso By Catherine Stover Imagine a city where more than 100,000 students are linked through a high-speed internet network, where everyone from kindergarten through graduate school has access to Internet 2, where fiber optic systems run seamlessly through three huge institutions: the public school system, the community college, and the university campus. Welcome to El Paso, Texas. |
| Getting the Best Out of Adjunct Faculty By Mary Lou Santovec Many institutions recruit their distance education faculty from the ranks of their full-time faculty. When that fails to fill the need, online administrators will turn to adjuncts, some of whom may already teach on their campus. A third alternative is to hire those who do not reside locally and who may never have set foot on your campus. |
| Obstacles to Learning Objects Although learning object repositories like MERLOT, CAREO, and WiscOnline are amassing, cataloging, and offering for use a wide assortment of learning objects, relatively few instructors or course developers are taking advantage of these resources. |
