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Distance Learning: Promises, Problems, And Possibilities
White Papers Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. This paper will examine some of the current research and thought on the promises, problems, and the future...
[April 20, 2005, 0:00]
Distance Education: Facing The Faculty Challenge
White Papers For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons why...
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
Distance Education Quality: Sucess Factors For Resources, Practices And Results
White Papers The current growth in distance education is a result of a convergence of factors. With improvements in the technology, distance courses are now more realistic, engaging, inexpensive, and varied. Technology-mediated distance education research has...
[April 17, 2005, 0:00]
Distance Education: Use Of Podcasting
White Papers Recently podcasting has moved into the distance education realm. Podcasting has become very attractive for some distance education programs because it provides flexible access to material and potentially could help students fit more learning time...
[July 6, 2007, 0:00]
Distance Education Strategy: Mental Models And Strategic Choices
White Papers What issues do distance education (DE) leaders believe will influence the future of DE? What are their colleges' DE strategies? This paper compares DE strategic thinking and strategic choices at three community colleges.
[April 20, 2005, 0:00]
Distance Learning Brings The Zoo To You: Students Receive Live Interactive Zoo Experience
White Papers Students learn about animals in a very personal way from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo distance learning program, using wireless technology, provided by Cisco partner Total Systems Integration, Inc.
[January 6, 2008, 23:00]
Distance Education And CTE: A Good Match?
White Papers Students enrolled in distance education, through telecommunications technology, can have almost the same instructional contact and interaction as the student in traditional settings. These technological changes have also driven the growth of...
[April 26, 2005, 0:00]
Long Distance Replication Technologies: Volume-Based Asynchronous Replication Buffering Advantages
White Papers A long-standing, popular alternative technique to achieve long-distance, remote replication is known as asynchronous data replication. Asynchronous data replication's advantage unobtrusively provides long-distance, remote data replication, thereby...
[May 26, 2007, 0:00]
Towards A Distance Education Model In Maldives
White Papers Since the introduction of distance education in 19th century, several research work have been undertaken to outline the different perspectives of distance education. Several considerations have to be made in order to provide an efficient and...
[April 17, 2005, 0:00]
Internet-Based Distance Education: Barriers, Models, And New Research
White Papers The rate of success of a student in Internet-based distance education courses is usually attributed to several factors. One must examine all of these elements in order to assess how each facilitates or impedes the knowledge to be gained.
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Using A Panel Of Experts To Enrich Planning Of Distance Education
White Papers This paper describes the results of a qualitative study of a panel of experts in distance education. The panel was selected to help identify directions for the continuing progress of distance education at a large Canadian comprehensive community...
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Fifth Generation Distance Education
White Papers At USQ, the move to the online environment was a natural step for an institution with a history of almost 25 years of commitment to innovation in distance education. In many universities the development of web-based initiatives is not systemic, but...
[April 17, 2005, 0:00]
Slovak Telecom Deploys Long Distance Disaster Recovery Solution
White Papers The long distance solution, which is based on technologies from EMC, will permit real time back-up at two geographically distant computer centres, thereby ensuring that all data is constantly available even in case of catastrophic events such as...
[January 1, 2007, 23:00]
A Distance Education Collaboration: The Learning Cafe Experience
White Papers As distance education collaborations between high schools and colleges increase, there is a concern that little has been done to assess the quality and effectiveness of the resulting virtual courses. How these issues are addressed will seriously...
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
Delivering Continuing Professional Development Using Online Distance Learning
White Papers This case study reflects on the use of a virtual learning environment (VLE) over a four year period to deliver an online, distance learning, Postgraduate Diploma in Law (Common Professional Examination) programme to both full time and part time...
[December 20, 2005, 23:00]
A Principled Approach To Facilitating Distance Education: The Internet, Higher Education And Higher Levels Of Learning
White Papers The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to extend the understanding of learning activities beyond the dissemination and discussion paradigm that currently dominates the design of Internet-based distance learning activities.
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Accessibility And Interactivity In Distance Education Programs For Health Professions
White Papers This paper reports a two-year study of students' experiences of accessibility and interactivity in distance education programs for health professions. Through surveys and focus groups with students, instructors, and administrative staff, the...
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Principles Of Good Practice In Distance Education And Their Application To Professional Education And Training In Psychology
White Papers Distance education programs abound in higher education, particularly in degree programs in undergraduate education, and in certificate and graduate programs in education and business. Currently, about 56% of all regionally-accredited colleges and...
[April 17, 2005, 0:00]
Barriers To Distance Education
White Papers This paper describes the barriers to distance learning, both inside and outside the higher education community. Inside the academy, distance education programs encounter numerous challenges: the academy's acceptance of distance education as an...
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
Administering Distance Courses Taught In Partnership With Other Institutions
White Papers The partner schools provide some or all of the major courses using technology for distance education. To fill a gap in its curriculum, the University of Minnesota at Crookston school contracted with the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities to...
[April 21, 2005, 0:00]
