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December 15, 2004
| Full December 15, 2004 issue of Distance Education Report in PDF format … |
| Creating a Proctoring System That Works Tricia Vogel is the Online Testing Coordinator for the Pace University/NACTEL vocational program. As such she has developed a system that many other online programs, departments, and schools have been looking for for years — an effective secure way to proctor tests, asynchronous and independent of distance, with a ready supply of trained and trustworthy exam proctors. |
| In the News Search Engine Launches Trial of New Research Tool for Academics; British Study Questions Educational Benefit of Computers; E-Rate Funds let School Computer Services Run Again; British Library Goes Wireless; Project to Post 30 Million Newspaper Pages Online; Online Education Looking Better in Survey; Campus Copyright Radicals Educate Other Students; Virtual Michigan Changes Tune |
| Faculty Training, On Demand In order to develop and deliver online courses, instructors at the University of Central Florida are required to take IDL6543, an award-winning, 70-hour faculty development course that leads them through the process over the course of a semester. Because demand for the course often exceeds the 30-person limit, UCF also offers — ADL5000, a 35-hour course that serves as a stopgap measure that certifies instructors to teach — but not modify or develop — online courses. |
| Blogs, Threaded Discussions Accentuate Constructivist Teaching Pedro Hernández-Ramos began using blogs and threaded discussions in Santa Clara University’s teacher preparation program with three goals in mind: • to introduce his students to a tool they may use in the classes they will teach in the future • to help students develop a sense of themselves as creators of knowledge • to connect students to a network of peers. |
| Weaving Threaded Discussion into the Course Threaded discussions are at the core of Estelle Owens’ junior-level online course, “History of the 20th Century World,” a course she teaches from Wayland Baptist University in Texas using Blackboard. Threaded discussions provide the primary means of communication among students, many of whom are military personnel stationed throughout the world, which adds to the variety of perspectives in the course. |
| Book Review By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Assessing Online Learning Patricia Comeaux, Editor |
