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November 15, 2005
| Distance Education Report - November 15, 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Addressing Retention in Distance Education: The SIEME Model By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Managing and reducing attrition is a major concern for all higher education professionals, including those in distance education. However, it is all too easy to move straight from quantifying attrition to attempting to address the problem –putting plans in place to motivate students to continue. |
| UMassOnline Takes USDLA Top Prize UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts' online education division, received the "21st Century Best Practices Award for Distance Learning." -- the United States Distance Learning Association’s highest honor. Here's how they won. |
| Who owns the rights to online courses? By Judy Dahl Since the advent of online education programs it’s been a controversial question. Does the faculty member who creates an online course own the copyright to it, or does the institution that provides the resources to create the course? |
| Advice for Instructors Making the Transition to Online Instruction Adapting a face-to-face course to the online environment entails more than learning the technology and creating online lectures. It also requires that instructors change how they interact with students and how they encourage students to interact with each other. |
| How Online Students Can Improve Overall Student Quality By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti A common concern when starting a distance education program is that the online course offerings will merely cannibalize students from existing traditional courses, dividing a fixed pool of students between the two delivery methods. However, recent research by Joseph Cavanaugh, associate professor of economics at Wright State University (Dayton, Ohio), indicates that online students earn better grades, and that attracting more distance education students can improve the overall academic quality of a student body. |
