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Distance Learning

Hectic work schedules and family obligations often conspire to drive students to online courses where the instructor and the students are in physically separate locations. Traditionally, distance learning has included correspondence courses, televised instruction, and self-paced website instruction. Online courses and other electronic learning, or “e-learning,” constitutes much of today’s distance learning initiatives.

August 25, 2010

Distance Education: The Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate

The debate for “control” of distance education at institutions of higher learning continues. On one side, the administration side, there is a need for centralization of operations, to include course ... Read more »

July 27, 2010

Ten Factors that Determine Online Student Success at Community Colleges

Community colleges are especially prone to problems with student completion of courses and retention of the students to graduation. To assist these institutions in addressing problems of persistence among ... Read more »

July 21, 2010

Four Pillars of Online Course Quality

The rapid growth of online education, coupled with instances of lax academic integrity and cases involving questionable instructional quality, has put the entire industry under the microscope. As a result, ... Read more »

June 11, 2010

Case Study: Building New Online Programs from Your Existing Courses

So often, universities hoping to expand their online course offerings think in terms of developing entire online programs from scratch, writing new courses, translating existing ones into the new delivery ... Read more »

May 4, 2010

How Do Students Think Online Courses Compare?

In its early days web-based instruction was seen as a solution to a problem: students who were separated from campus either by geography or schedule would be able to ... Read more »

April 26, 2010

Are More Regulations Coming for Online Education?

After years of double-digit growth and more than 4.5 million students currently learning online, almost everyone agrees that online education has moved from the periphery of higher education to the ... Read more »

March 30, 2010

External Pressures Bring Changes to Higher Education

Higher education faces a number of pressures today that online learning may be able to help address.  The economy is increasingly driven by knowledge and technology continues to evolve.  At ... Read more »

March 5, 2010

Does Teaching Online Really Take More Time?

There are certain widely held ideas about how time is used in distance education. One is that distance education “takes more time” than face-to-face teaching. This is one of those ... Read more »

February 24, 2010

Best Practices for Keeping Online Adjuncts Engaged

The number of adjunct faculty teaching at colleges and universities continues to rise dramatically. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), 44 percent of faculty and instructional staff ... Read more »

February 19, 2010

Academic Integrity in Distance Learning

The problem of academic dishonesty has become one of staggering proportions. In a recent paper on the subject, Robert Kitahara, assistant professor in the business programs at Troy University, ... Read more »

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