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August 15, 2005
| Distance Education Report - August 15, 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Measuring—and Understanding—Student Retention By Catherine Stover When actor John Houseman stood in the front of his class and said, “Look to the left of you. Look to the right of you. By the end of the semester, one of you will be gone,” he made student attrition look like the hallmark of a fine institution. However, administrators today know that low retention is a problem, not a badge of honor. |
| Computer Ethics 101 By Judy Dahl “Students often come to the university with a very relaxed attitude toward copyright issues in particular. Many feel there’s nothing wrong with copying music and sharing it across the Internet,” says David Wright, Ph.D., director of curriculum innovation and e-learning at the University of Dayton (UD). “Many don’t feel it’s an ethical or a legal problem." That’s one reason UD developed its “Policy on Fair, Responsible and Acceptable Use of Electronic Resources,” along with an online tutorial to help students understand it. |
| Seven Steps to Meeting the Technical Needs of Online Students By Susan Gaide Recently, one of my online students tried to e-mail a PowerPoint presentation to me. “You’ll need to reduce the file size in order for it to come through,” I told him. “File size?” he asked. Problem solved. Or was it really? Chances are, there’s still plenty of other technical information he needs to learn. |
| Online Student Services for Multiple Institutions: Lessons from Texas By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti The University of Texas system is a wide and varied group of institutions. Comprised of nine academic campuses and six health science centers, the campuses span the length and breadth of the large state. And, although some mistakenly assume that the system is a single flagship campus with several satellites, each institution is actually its own unique and independent entity. |
| Online Course Evaluation Project Launched The Monterey Institute of Technology and Education (MITE), an educational non-profit organization focused on improving access to education, has developed the Online Course Evaluation Project (OCEP), an initiative to provide distance education educators, designers, and administrators with a resource to explore the availability, quality, and completeness of online courses. |
