Posts Tagged ‘managing distance education programs’
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
July 11 - Ensuring Online Program Quality with the eQuality Model
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
Despite the challenges, it is possible to maintain academic rigor and integrity even though instructors and students are scattered across the state, across the country, or even across the world. This report will explain how to gather, analyze, and apply data that will lead to a better online experience for students, faculty, and staff.
March 3 - Ensuring Quality of Online Programs
By: Christopher Hill in Distance Learning Administration
In an email interview Richard Schilke, EdD, associate dean for online Liberal Arts and Sciences at the Open Campus of Florida State College at Jacksonville spoke with Distance Education Report about the importance of a continuous process improvement plan for online programs, and how the eQuality model addresses these needs.
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.
April 27 - Ensuring Online Program Quality with the eQuality Model
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
Concerns about the quality of distance learning have been a hot topic lately. From media headlines to the recent legislative challenges of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, questions about quality are being asked over and over again. Now it’s time to provide some answers–and improve your program in the process.
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.
October 27 - Rethinking the Distance Education Business Model
By: Jennifer Patterson Lorenzetti in Distance Learning Administration
Everyone wants a blueprint for managing their distance education program, but sometimes the best thing to do may be to throw away the old business model and begin thinking about new ways to deliver and share online courses.
March 27 - Distance Learning Administration and Policy: Strategies for Achieving Excellence
By: Mary Bart in Free Reports, Online Education
Although distance learning is no longer in its infancy, there are still a lot of unknowns. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the questions and the possibilities of what you want your online program to look like today … not to mention five years from now. Here’s your chance to take advantage some of the best practices learned by those who blazed the trail before you.
