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March 1, 2005
| Distance Education Report March 1, 2005 full issue PDF … |
| A New Way to Evaluate Accessibility By Mary Lou Santovec Online programs have opened up new worlds to students with disabilities. They’ve leveled the playing field, bringing access to all students. |
| Monthly Metrics Percentage distribution of 2-year and 4-year Title IV degree-granting institutions, by the extent to which various factors are preventing the institution from starting or expanding distance education course offerings, and by distance education program status in 2000–2001: 2002 |
| RIT’s Approach to Blended Learning In 2002, Rochester Institution of Technology’s online learning department began an initiative to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning through the use of technology by making a course management system available for every course, developing a blended learning model, and implementing a blended learning pilot. |
| Online Teachers’ Education at Western Governors University By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti Western Governors University is physically based in Salt Lake City, but the reach of its Teachers College is national. WGU is expanding its offerings steadily and deliberately in response to market demands. Along the way, it continues to assess its progress and success. |
| Hybrid Design Enables Individualized Learning Experience Hybrid course design is often employed to take advantage of the best aspects of the face-to-face and online environments... But perhaps the greatest advantage of the hybrid model is the ability to maintain some of the structure of the F2F classroom while enabling students to approach the course content based on their own learning objectives and interests. |
| The University of Phoenix Way The University of Phoenix' model of online course delivery does not grant the individual instructor the flexibility that many institutions give faculty members, but the experience offers other rewards, including a solid foundation in online instruction and course design worth emulating, says Muhammad Betz. |
| Report on International Distance Education In “Internationalization and Trade in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges,” the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an international trade research group, examines how international tertiary study among its 30 member nations has changed in the past ten to 15 years. |
