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The participants consisted of 72 seventh grade students from 5 classrooms. Each participant was randomly assigned to use one of three science websites with similar content but varying levels of interactivity. Results indicate that interactivity positively influenced learning outcomes, website satisfaction, and time-on-task.Read the Full Story
Online Courses Open to AnyoneThese OTI online faculty development courses are also available to any faculty or staff member from any higher education institution.Since going live with OTI in 2002, about 350 faculty have taken two of these online courses: “Introduction to Online Teaching Strategies” and “Teaching Online with Intralearn” (the course management system used […]
Elliott, director of telecommunications and coordinator of distance education at Catawba Valley Community College, began pursuing a Ph.D. in communications technology through Capella University in 2001. The school is an online university.Read the Full Story
As a Land Grant institution, NMSU has historically played a major role in making education accessible at a distance for clientele in the state and for regional, national, and international audiences. This history, of largely positive and productive experiences with Distance Education/Distributed Learning (DE/DL), provides a solid platform for considering the future. However, recent history […]
The award, established in 2002, honors a full-time professor who has proven to be the most dedicated to teaching extended education courses at off-campus distance education sites.Read the Full Story
Learning environments strongly influence student outcomes and play an important role in improving the effectiveness of learning. Recently, a new branch of learning environments research has come to the discipline—distance education learning environments research.Read the Full Story
It’s been a precarious balancing act. Say that the state’s colleges and universities are in trouble — that inadequate state support is depleting quality — and they risk making matters worse by turning off prospective students and faculty. Read the Full Story
Despite some fanciful predictions, none of these breakthroughs led to the abolishment of face-to-face classrooms. Still, over time, distance education has become more credible and its planners have steadily refined their techniques. Read the Full Story
This is why many like Larry Daughenbaugh, an Interactive Media Design student at the Art Institute Online, a division of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, and a full time information technology technician and Web specialist at Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts, chose to sign onto The Art Institute Online to obtain a degree and […]
Today, at the crest of this global transformation, colleges and universities steadily have added online courses to their curricula — not only to compete with other schools, but to afford educational opportunities that meet the demands of a student’s busy lifestyle. Read the Full Story