Posts Tagged ‘distance education administrators’
July 22 - Distance Education Administrators Face Unique Challenges
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
Distance education administrators must constantly juggle concerns about academic integrity, technology, and student access, along with campus politics and their own learning curve. Fred Lokken is chairman of the Instructional Technology Council and associate dean for teaching technologies at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev. As part of an ITC Conference panel, he and his colleagues considered some of the challenges that distance education administrators face
June 7 - Community Colleges Continue to Grow Online
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration
Community colleges saw a nine percent increase in distance learning enrollments in the 2009-10 academic year, according to a survey by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges.
December 9 - What Distance Ed Administrators Must Know About the Law
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
The best way to handle a legal problem in your online program is to avoid it in the first place. This white paper explains the proactive steps you need to take now to protect your institution and yourself.
August 25 - Distance Education: The Centralization vs. Decentralization Debate
By: Michael T. Eskey, PhD in Distance Learning Administration
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 development, instructor training and development, scheduling, evaluation, and student and faculty issues. On the other side of the debate, faculty leaders (deans, department chairs, program coordinators) tend to favor decentralization.
March 30 - External Pressures Bring Changes to Higher Education
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
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 the same time, people are becoming more mobile while demanding lifelong learning to meet their educational needs. All of these pressures are coming to bear on academe, and universities are deciding whether and how to respond.
July 14 - Distance Education Resistance: Understanding Its Origins
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
It’s a fact of life. Distance education proponents have to learn how to live with conflict. Distance education has been controversial from the start and in many ways continues to be so. Elizabeth Mitchell, PhD and Dr. Iris Geva-May, a professor on the Education faculty at Canada’s Simon Fraser University, have studied the resistance to
June 3 - Understanding the HEOA’s Student Authentication Provision for Distance Education Programs
By: Mary Bart in Distance Learning Administration
Hundreds of distance education administrators breathed a collective sigh of relief upon learning in a recent online seminar that the vast majority of schools are already in compliance with the Higher Education Opportunity Act’s new rules on student authentication.
December 10 - Eight Resources for Distance Education Research
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
Increasingly, distance education program leaders are expected to be scholars as well as administrators, and to contribute to the academic research in distance education. To respond successfully to these expectations, Scott Howell, director of evening classes at Brigham Young University, recommends eight resources—some low-tech and common sense, some at the cutting edge of knowledge distribution.
December 8 - Research Now Part of Distance Education Administrator’s Job Description
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration, Online Education
As distance education continues to become a fact of institutional life, provosts, academic vice presidents, and board members are asking questions of distance educators that can only be answered with in-depth academic-style research and analysis.
June 7 - Reading, Researching, and Publishing Tips for Distance Educators
By: Wordpress Admin in Online Seminars
As fast as distance education is growing, scholarship about it is growing even faster, with predictable results. If you’re a distance-education leader on your campus, you know these pressures well…and you’re undoubtedly ready for a seminar that tackles them head-on.
Scott is director, Evening Classes, in Brigham Young University’s Division of Continuing Education. He is also an adjunct associate professor in the BYU School of Education’s Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology. He has received numerous awards for his research and publications in distance and continuing education.