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Distance learning graduates who can’t attend their upcoming K-State commencement ceremony, as well as their friends, family, and well-wishers, can still get a taste of some of the pomp and circumstance at K-State’s new Virtual Commencement website. The www.dce.ksu.edu/commencement site went live May 9. It was designed by the Virtual Commencement Committee in the Division […]
Last October, the State System of Higher Education, which oversees the universities, launched the cyber portal known as the Keystone University Network, which is delivering the master’s degrees and other programs.Read the Full Article
Two of the most commonly used forms of distance education are 1) two-way, fully interactive audio-video classrooms and 2) on-line instruction through the Internet or Worldwide Web. This study used qualitative methods to compare and contrast the interaction that occurred in distance learning courses offered via each medium. The research process confirmed findings that there […]
The differing motivational factors (as they have emerged in the literature) have shown to be related to faculty appointment levels and years of service, which seem to play an important role in identifying how administrators can encourage these seasoned instructors to participate in the online learning environments. The article concludes with discussion points to encourage […]
“We developed correspondence courses in the 1890s. The issue was to improve the quality of life in rural areas and bring education to farm families. What we’ve done is via satellite and television and all sorts of media, so when the Internet came about, it seemed only natural,” said Dr. Gary E. Miller, associate vice […]
Image and sound quality with this technology are excellent but (as with any new technology) effective pedagogy requires understanding the medium, prediction of pitfalls, and modifications in teaching techniques. The presentation will offer insights into effective compressed video teaching based upon the first-hand experiences of teachers who have presented compressed video, as well as technicians […]
This paper reports a study of the occurrence of 13 online strategies defined as “supportive,” according to the categorizations found in an instrument called the Transcript Analysis Tool (TAT). The corpus used in the study consisted of three transcripts produced by students (graduate degree and professional development diploma candidates) engaged in course-related CMC conferencing. Read […]
Recently, I set out to find an answer to the question of what current research was saying about how, if at all, the Web impacted student learning. My recently released monograph, Quality in Distance Education: Focus on Online Learning, is a compilation of more than 100 studies drawn from several online journals, conference Web sites, […]
It’s a college campus that exists only in cyberspace, and it’s growing fast. About 40,000 students at Illinois public universities now take classes online, a 600 percent increase from just a few years ago, and that number could double or triple in the next decade or so. Read the Full Article
Abstract: Preparing courses for flexible delivery and distance education is normally a timeconsuming and expensive process. This paper describes the design and evaluation of a system that automatically captures and indexes audio and video streams of traditional university lectures without demanding any changes in the style or tools used by teachers. Using a `wizard-of-oz’ technique […]