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April 1, 2005
| Distance Education Report April 1, 2005 full issue PDF … |
| How Penn State Converted a Landmark Study into a Program Evaluation Framework By Catherine Stover To administrators of online programs, there will be a familiar ring to the questions that David DiBiase, of Pennsylvania State University’s Geography Department, raised when he began developing a new online program: “What can we do to make sure a new online program will succeed? Can we design a program so that its success can be measured?" |
| Resources Exploring the Digital Library : A Guide for Online Teaching and Learning (Online Teaching and Learning Series); Collaborating Online: Learning Together in Community; Encyclopedia Of Distance Learning |
| Counting the Costs of Distance Education By Mary Lou Santovec In the musical, “Cabaret,” the emcee at the Kit Kat Club sings about how “money makes the world go around.” Every distance learning administrator with budgetary oversight knows how true those lyrics are. |
| Bringing Distance Education into the Mainstream By Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti About five years ago, Oregon State University scrapped its existing distance learning initiative and restarted from scratch. As the newly-instituted OSU Extended Campus, the unit undertook the mission to bring its distance education offerings into the mainstream. Along the way, OSU Extended Campus and Dean Bill McCaughan discovered strategies for integrating distance learning offerings into the mission of the university. |
| Blended Design Improves Core Course, Introduces Students, Faculty to Online Learning In any given semester, up to 1,500 Pace University students enroll in CIS 101, an introduction to computing course that is part of the institution’s core curriculum. One of the challenges of offering the course to so many students is maintaining consistency across sections (in this case, 50 sections per semester). |
