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November 2005
| Distance Education Report - November, 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Defining, Supporting Faculty Excellence By Mary Lou Santovec One of the issues confronting administrators of distance education programs is faculty excellence. How do you define faculty excellence in an online environment? How do you train for it? How do you build it among faculty who teach at a distance? |
| Ask Naj Dear Naj, Humor has always been a part of my teaching style in face to face courses. Now that I am teaching online, I can’t quite figure out how to inject humor into the proceedings (or even if I should). Some of my colleagues have suggested that humor may be inappropriate and even unworkable in the online environment. What do you think? Academic Wit |
| Online Services Keep Syracuse Students Satisfied By Judy Dahl “We’ve had online student services for our distance-learning population for about three years,” says Kathryn Allen, director of distance learning at Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies. Moving student services online has increased student satisfaction while decreasing staff workloads. |
| Serving Special Populations through Distance Education By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Distance education programs are often characterized by the double-edged sword of anonymity. On the one hand, the fact that students and instructors may not see each other lends a benignly faceless nature to the proceedings, in which race, gender, demographic characteristics, and any indication of background disappear. On the other, sometimes this same factor means that critical information is ignored, occasionally at the expense of the success of the students. |
| To Make High Tech Education Work, Get Middle Tech Right A significant hindrance to realization of high-tech potential in instruction is the difficulty and cost of getting basic media created in or converted to digital format. Capture of still and moving images and sound is not a set of skills that most academics have learned. |
| Instructor-Librarian Collaboration Can Improve Course, Make Librarian More Effective Librarians are very knowledgeable and often very willing to lend their expertise to individual courses, but they are often underutilized in online courses and programs. |
