UNB Professor Wins Prestigious Award
The paper was published in the American Journal of Distance Education in 2002. (Requests for reprints should be sent to dconrad@unb.ca.) Read the Full Story
Archive for the ‘Higher Education’ Category
PBS And Leading Colleges Join To Provide “Anytime, Anywhere” Access to Top Quality Distance Education College Courses and Degrees
ALEXANDRIA, VA – September 25, 2003 – PBS today joined five of the nation’s leading institutions of higher education to announce that, for the first time, every course available in the wide ranging “PBS Campus” service (www.pbs.org/campus) will be available for any student to take for college credit, no matter where they live. The five […]
Carnegie grant to help revamp teacher training
The $5 million Carnegie grant to Stanford will be matched with funds raised by the university, said Jeffrey Wachtel, the project’s coordinator and senior assistant to the president. Read the Full Story
Higher costs for higher education
(CNN) — It’s the new joke on campus: No wonder they call it “higher” education — tuition is sharply higher this year at state colleges and universities across the United States. Read the Full Story
MIT for free, virtually
One year after the launch of its pilot program, MIT on Monday quietly published everything from class syllabuses to lecture videos for 500 courses through its OpenCourseWare initiative, an ambitious project it hopes will spark a Web-based revolution in the way universities share information.Read the Full Story
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Thomas C. Reeves, Author of “Interactive Learning Systems Evaluation”
Dr. Saba: What prompted you to write a book about evaluation?Dr. Reeves: While I was in the Ph.D. program in the Area of Instructional Technology at Syracuse University back in the 1970s, I was very fortunate to study evaluation with Dr. Edward F. Kelly, who was the Director of Evaluation for the Center for Instructional […]
MIT Publishes 500th Course On OpencourseWare
CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (September 30, 2003) – MIT announced today that the OpenCourseWare initiative has published its 500th course and now offers free and open access to the educational materials from all 33 of MIT’s academic disciplines and all five of its schools. This milestone represents a significant technical and organizational achievement, the first on the […]
Illinois Compass points learning to one place online
Students and faculty will be able to turn to one service for quizzing, grades, paperwork, announcements, assignments and discussion. Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services officials plan to introduce Illinois Compass this spring with complete release in fall 2004.Read the Full Story
Subject Title: State University of New York – Teaching, Learning and Technology
The online courses of the TLT Cooperative provide convenient opportunities for faculty and instructional support staff to learn about topics such as creating and delivering multimedia-enhanced courses, creating hybrid and complete online courses, online assessment strategies, web-based animation and simulation, detecting and preventing plagiarism, reusable learning objects, and issues in digital copyright. The fee for […]
Perceptions of Faculty on the Effect of Distance Learning Technology on Faculty Preparation Time
The results showed that the faculty spent less additional time on training and preparation for distance teaching for courses that they repeated teaching in the same environment. However, thirty percent of the faculty still reported needing between ten and twenty additional hours of preparation time even in their third semester of teaching.Read the Full Story