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ISOLDE is a 24 month project (1 February 2002 – 31 January 2004) coordinated by EFECOT (European Federation for the Education of Travelling Communities, Belgium) and supported by the European Commission’s Minerva Programme. Its information service provides the following data for the UK, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany and Bulgaria: · Facts and figures about […]
“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 […]
Courses taught on the web allow Americans to interact with people from around the world and to learn new perspectives that they could never experience in a typical classroom, said Merry Merryfield, professor of social studies and global education at Ohio State University. Read the Full Article
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, […]
FCC Commissioner Kathleen Q. Abernathy organized the forum to hear specific, concrete suggestions for reforming the eRate program, which has provided advertisement 66 percent of U.S. public schools with discounts on their telecommunications services, internet access, and internal wiring since its inception five years ago.Read the Full Article
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
Each challenge engages students in a classroom activity that leads them through the design, testing, & evaluation process used by engineers in developing new technology. Among the challenges: 1) designing a strong but lightweight thrust structure that can withstand the launch of a bottle rocket by means of a wooden lever & 2) designing a […]
BOSTON, MA – Harvard Business School Publishing eLearning will showcase Harvard ManageMentor® PLUS, one of the most popular online support tools on the market today, at this year’s American Society for Training & Development 2003 International Conference and Exposition, being held May 15-22 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA. An Interactive […]