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June 1, 2005
| Distance Education Report - June 1, 2005 - Full Issue … |
| The Coming Convergence of Technology: A View From the Hill By Mary Lou Santovec Comparing communication by telephone to that provided over the Internet is the equivalent of comparing the railroad industry to the airlines. By moving individuals, goods, and services, they’re both accomplishing the same objective. But few would think seriously about applying railroad regulations to the airline industry. |
| Secrets of Online Success: Lessons from the Community Colleges By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti For Bellevue Community College and Edmonds Community College in Washington state, online education is an important way of life. For each of these two colleges, online enrollment is a significant portion of the total. Some 13,000 students out of a total enrollment of more than 73,000 in 2005 studied online through BCC. For EdCC, 11,000 of a total enrollment of more than 40,000 were online. Clearly, the online student body is a critically important population for both institutions. |
| IT Support: New Realities, Fewer Benefits Only a handful of elite institutions have on their rosters instructional technology support staff with the numbers and talent to help transform methods of education. The “standard model” for IT organizations at campuses of most sizes consists of user services, systems and network, administrative databases, and instructional support. The names vary, of course. |
| Developing Basic Online Teaching Skills, Encouraging Experimentation Faculty development for online instructors should focus on technology and pedagogy without being too much of a burden. The idea is to create an environment in which faculty develop basic skills in these two areas while encouraging experimentation, said Charles R. Harris, an educational leadership doctoral student at Arkansas State University and former instructional design coordinator at Troy State University. |
| Top Ten Challenges in Educational IT (For six years, EDUCAUSE, the lobbying organization for the use of information technology in higher ed, has done a survey to determine the most important issues on the minds of educators and university CIOs. Here, abridged, with the permission of EDUCAUSE, are the top ten issues for 2005 in the educational use of technology, with commentary. Ed.) |
