Quality Driven Futures [For Distance and Higher Education]
After the initial chaos created by the massive demand for education, most states handle the influx with a combination of new community or tech colleges. Read the Full Article
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Should Tutoring Services be Added to our High-Enrolling Distance Education Courses?
Distance learning administrators are always looking for ways to balance increasing demands on instructor time, rising expectations from students and faculty for support services, mounting competition, and escalating costs with quality instruction and interaction. Increasingly, programs are responding to these competing interests by appending ancillary resources to course materials and textbooks and by using computer-mediated […]
A day in the life of a distance learning librarian
This morning, I received an e-mail from a librarian who is applying for a position as a distance learning librarian. She asked me what a distance learning librarian does. I would guess that every single person with the title (and some without it who work with online learners) have somewhat different job responsibilities. Read the […]
Digital Library as Network and Community Center
Educational digital libraries (DLs) are grounded on the premise that educators can do a better job with less effort if they can easily find and reuse materials that are created by others (1, 2, 3, 4). In this model, success is predicated on the ability of the DL to engage its community in building relevant […]
Open Educational Resources – anonymity vs. specificity
Open Educational Resources are a recent concept in regard of the organisation of world wide sharing of educational materials and tools. This concept is oriented at the model of OpenSource software production or Wikipedia. Also for institutions like the UNESCO or the OECD, which are interested in the development of OER, it is the main […]
E-accessibility to educational content for the deaf
This paper focuses on the implementation of an e-learning environment for the educational support of the deaf, as a paradigm of deaf inclusion in the Information Society. The developed platform allows structuring and presentation of Greek Sign Language (GSL) educational material and linguistic resources, addressing the needs of GSL grammar teaching to early primary school […]
College of Eastern Utah’s San Juan campus gets $1.2 million grant
The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding the College of Eastern Utah’s San Juan campus $1.2 million for nursing education. Read the Full Article
State’s online education in disarray
Audit takes particularly scathing look at Vilas School District and Hope Online Academy.Read the Full Article
Online schools flunk audit
The state report cites poor student performance and shoddy accounting among the state’s rapidly growing cyberschools.Read the Full Article
State board to take lead on cyberschool rules
State Board of Education members on Wednesday made clear they want a lead role in crafting regulations for Colorado’s cyberschools, just days after an audit report criticized the state Education Department for lax supervision over the schools.Read the Full Article