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Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems include legislative bodies, regulatory and administrative organs of the executive branch of governments at various levels from national to local, and civil organizations. Their primary responsibility is to pass legislations, determine, and implement policies, rules and regulations, and provide funding resources. While […]
Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems consist of a collection of courses that form a discipline supported by an academic department as well as policies and procedures affecting offering such courses and programs. Key personnel– Traditional members of this systems level include vice presidents of academic affairs, deans, […]
By: Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic Characteristics– Courses, modules, learning objects and supporting elements such as databases that include the instructional strategy and content for each subject, skill and competency that are taught and learned are the basic building blocks of these systems. Key Personnel– Professionals who work in these systems […]
Farhad Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic Characteristics– The Primary role of these systems are to connect the instructor with learners, and provide learner-learner communication as well as communication services for administrative and research functions of the university. Usually under the auspices of the campus chief information officer (CIO) a complex network […]
Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Basic characteristics– These systems consist of the array of computer programs that are needed for teaching, learning, research and administrative affairs. Instructors have an increasing number of choices at their fingertips to connect with learners through audio, video and text communication. The variety of communication software for […]
Dr. Farhad (Fred) Saba Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In a previous article in this series, I presented a model of distance education consisting of seven interrelated nested system levels. These system levels have been present in most distance education organizations that I observed, or planned and built over the past 30 years. In this article […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Over the past 30 years, while designing and implementing distance education systems at different scales, from large enterprises to stand alone courses, it became evident to me that planners and administrators usually base most of their decisions on what type of hardware and software to acquire. […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com In recent years information and communication technologies (ICT) have made implementing extraordinary and revolutionary models of education possible. Participation of various colleges and universities in adopting new models of teaching and learning via the Internet, however, has been uneven. Up to now, the role of ICT […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com Cole (2009) in a comprehensive book titled The great American university stated that: “American society today is not preparing enough of its talented students for work in fields that will be critical for the growth of knowledge in science and engineering; nor is it adequately preparing […]
Farhad (Fred) Saba, Ph. D. Founder and Editor, Distance-Educator.com The cost of going to college has steadily increased in the past three decades at a rate of 5% to 10% a year. This increase has been faster than the general rate of inflation, which has been pegged to 3% a year on average. At the […]
