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Recent Seminars
Critical New Findings from the ‘Managing Online Education’ Study
WCET and The Campus Computing Project share their findings from the 2009 Managing Online Education Survey with details on how different schools handle the operational, instructional, and IT issues of their online programs. The survey data are based on responses from 182 senior campus officials at two- and four-year public and private U.S. colleges and universities.
audio Online Seminar • Recorded on Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Distance Education Resistance: Understanding Its Origins
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
Four Distance Education Research Topics to Avoid
Existing distance learning research falls into several main areas. Some lend themselves to future research to expand the knowledge base, but others do not need to be revisited. Here are the distance education research topics to avoid:
Eight Resources for Distance Education Research
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.
Research Now Part of Distance Education Administrator’s Job Description
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.
Reading, Researching, and Publishing Tips for Distance Educators
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.