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This paper was presented the PTC2001 Conference, Hawaii, January 2001 and is published here with permission of the author and the copyright holder, the Pacific Telecommunications Council.Read the Full Article (PDF File)
The obstacles students face appear to depend upon several things, including the stage or level of experience that the individual learner has developed regarding distance education. Therefore, research involving persons who are currently learning online and those who have never taken an online course is needed. (In fact, it has been especially difficult to gather […]
Among these, a leading candidate for the title “most worthy of change” is the large lecture found in such undergraduate staples as the introductory courses in psychology, sociology, physics, chemistry, and biology. Read the Full Article (PDF file)
Founded in 2001, UMassOnline set out to serve the educational needs of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond by offering accredited educational programs via the Internet. Read the Full Article
The new technology will be equally valuable to managers in industry, academia, government and the military. Read the Full Article
John Bailey, director, Office of Educational Technology, and other department officials discussed these and other findings in the report in a virtual briefing.Access the Webcast
Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000-2001 is the third survey of its kind undertaken by NCES, and shows that there were about 3.1 million enrollments* in all distance education courses offered by these institutions. While the two previous studies, in 1994-95 and in 1997-98, looked at slightly different populations, there is a definite upward […]
Her students receive their lectures over the Internet, and – increasingly – are adult professionals. Read the Full Article
When the American College of I.T. opened in May 2002, it had nowhere to go but up — two students comprised the entire student body. But since its opening, the technical college has enrolled 40 students from Missouri, Kansas, New York, Texas, Michigan, Oklahoma and other states. One student logs on from Kuwait and soon […]
The literature describing the rapid evolution of distance education delivery systems over the past twenty years has frequently categorized it into three stages, from correspondence education, to technology-assisted education and, more recently, networked education. Read the Full Article