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September 1, 2005
| Distance Education Report - September 1, 2005 - Full issue … |
| The Power of Popcorn: Low-Tech Marketing Secrets from Old Dominion University By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Successful marketing of a distance education program doesn’t have to be a complicated endeavor filled with high-tech approaches and expensive niche targeting. |
| Hybrid Format Supports New Wave of Public Health Officials By Mary Lou Santovec Distance education offers many training and educational opportunities for both place-bound and disabled students. It also effectively serves another population—those whose jobs or careers prevent them from attending traditional classes. |
| Choices Foster Online Success for Students with Learning Disabilities By Judy Dahl When she began researching online accessibility issues for students with disabilities, Melissa D. Engleman, professor of special education, East Carolina University, expected to focus on physical disabilities. However, she found learning disabilities to be far more prevalent. |
| Using Blackboard as an Intradepartmental Communication Tool Efficient intradepartmental and interdepartmental communications can make a big difference in the function of a department. When first introduced, e-mail helped make communication quicker and clearer, information more transferable, the work flow faster, records more decipherable. But now one community college is communicating and sharing information by means of Blackboard, the popular course management system, and finding it increases efficiency more powerfully than e-mail. |
| Faculty Perceptions of Distance Learning Do you want to convince a faculty member to teach online? Perhaps the best way to change a professor’s attitude about online teaching is to have him or her give it a try, according to a West Texas A&M University study. |
