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- Breaking down the laptop wall with conferencing software
- I've talked before about the so-called "laptop wall" that an increasing number of college lecturers and even secondary school teachers face. The challenge, of course, is to turn those laptops into learning tools instead of distractions, machines that engage students rather than letting them disengage. Last...
- Tags: Distance Education, Clemson University, Information Technology, Student, Laptop Computer, Wall, E-learning, Notebooks, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- ADEC Brings Advanced Learning to K-20 Schools Via Internet2 in Even the Remotest Reaches of Alaska
- Distance learning breaks down barriers for Alaska, a state that's more than twice as large as Texas - more than 586,000 square miles with only 12,200 miles of roads. Alaska Distance Education Consortium ADEC wanted to deploy network that enables distance education and collaboration across Alaskan villages and towns. To...
- Tags: Distance Education, Juniper Networks Inc., Internet2, Alaska, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-03-01
- Design of a Real-Time Remote-Access Engineering Laboratory Using Integrated Web Service and Wireless Technology for Distance Learners
- Web-based distance education has enabled university programmes to increase diversity within the student body by allowing non-traditional students and satellite campuses the ability to access a standard college education. However, for engineering distance education, students only have limited access to laboratory equipment to gain hands-on experiences. In this paper, the...
- Tags: Distance Education, Distance Learning, Web, Wireless Technology, Student, Web Service, Western Carolina University, Wireless, E-learning, Training And Certification, Transportation, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2007-06-04
- Baylor bucks the online trend
- Bucking the trend toward offering more distance education classes, Baylor University in Waco, Texas, has put the kibosh on offering online courses, reports The Lariat. Most universities across the country are adding online courses to their curriculum as fast as they can develop them. Baylor University, however, is eschewing...
- Tags: Baylor University, distance education
- Blog posts 2006-11-01
- The Effects of Distance Education on K-12 Student Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis
- The community of K-12 education has seen explosive growth over the last decade in distance learning programs, defined as learning experiences in which students and instructors are separated by space and/or time. While elementary and secondary students have learned through the use of electronic distance learning systems since the 1930s,...
- Tags: K-12, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Learning Point Associates, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Literature Review - Faculty Participation in Online Distance Education: Barriers and Motivators
- Distance education is a medium of teaching and learning that has grown significantly in the past 10 years as indicated by the number of higher education institutions that offer courses and/or full degree programs via distance learning. The purpose of this paper is to examine the overall attitude of higher...
- Tags: Barrier, Distance Education, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Thirty-Two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning
- Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This paper provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are...
- Tags: Trend, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Strategic Planning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Current Trends in Distance Education: An Administrative Model
- Current practices and procedures of distance education programs at selected institutions in higher education in Ohio were studied. Relevant data was found in the areas of: content of the distance education program's mission statement; needs assessment procedures; student demographics; course acquisition, development, and evaluation criteria and procedures; hierarchical approval of...
- Tags: Distance Education, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge
- For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. They resist individually or as a whole, often seeking the guidance of union representatives. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Faculty, E-learning, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Parents would rather talk drugs than math/science with their kids
- Well, DUH!It's always easier to talk about something that you have experience with.RE: Parents would rather talk drugs than math/science with their kidsIt would also help talking with the children about those subjects even if the parents really don't know about it! Maybe they could learn with the kids and...
- Tags: Online Resource
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- Free Screen To Video 1.1 (Windows)
- Free Screen To video allow you to record screen activity to video files. You can record entire or parts of your screen to FLV, AVI, WMV or SWF. Very easy to use, Free screen to video can record mouse movements and audio from a microphone. You can create help desk,...
- Tags: FLV, Microsoft Windows, Video, Koyote Soft, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-10-08
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- distance educationI recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.Margarethttp://businesseshome.netRE: Course Credits as a Reward for CollaborationI recently...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Margaret, collaboration
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Course Credits as a Reward for Collaboration
- Distance learning -Â providing access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and/or distance -Â has been around since the dawn of postal delivery services. In the current economic climate further education seems likely to take...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, Collaboration, Training, Enrollment, Straighterline, Employee Orientation Training Day, E-learning, Training And Certification, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-09-06
- Generation Y: 'Email is unfashionable and outdated'
- Steve Clayton, Microsoft extraordinaire and geek in disguise, posted an interesting set of statistics over the weekend, via Socialnomics, on the social media revolution - the movement where media and information spreads far and wide through social techniques; Twitter and Facebook being the two best examples. Students,...
- Tags: Facebook, Generation Y, Student, YouTube Inc., E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Breaking down the laptop wall with conferencing software
- Breaking down the laptop wall with conferencing softwareAdobe connectJust finishing up my webinar class, we were trained to use Adobe connect. Most of the time it works like a champ -- but it has its days. In my recent practice, I had to go live to the desktop even though...
- Tags: E-learning, training and certification, laptop wall, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe Connect, laptop computer, software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-22
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .Cloud Computing: The low cost arrived to IT business?Hi Tom,Great analysis, and of course I agree.And dare to say that Cloud Computing is also the IT business ?low cost?:http://www.cloudviews.org/2009/05/cloud-computing-the-low-cost-arrived-to-it-business/RE: The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .i don't think it can...
- Tags: Internet, gravity, industrial revolution, cloud computing
- Discussion threads 2009-06-20
- The Power of Centralized Video Communications Management
- Video communications is now an accepted method for conducting meetings, product development, customer support, recruiting, distance education, and healthcare, along with many other applications. Once considered just an alternative to travel, videoconferencing has now become a core, mission-critical business tool for both large and small enterprises.
- Tags: Video, Tandberg, Video Communication, Corporate Communications, Product Development, E-learning, Marketing, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2009-06-17
- Recession, depression, and a graduate job market drought
- Recession, depression, and a graduate job market droughtI am glad i am not the only one who thinks degrees are worthless.If i had stayed in college i would have ended up at another company, probably still doing tech support or maybe junior admin. I spent two years in college,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, recession, Dear Leader
- Discussion threads 2009-06-02
- If we build it, what will come?
- If we build it, what will come?What jobs???What jobs, GM, Chrysler are going to be forced into bankruptcy with Czar Obama who fired the CEO and the Union Auto Workers will be paid off.Meanwhile, small business and taxes will be levied to pay for his 'free' healthcare for people who...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, tax, job
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- The fundamental value of Internet access
- The fundamental value of Internet accessFunny you should compare...the Internet to our road system. One is provided by greedy corporations while the other is provided by the government. Whopping difference.I've said it in the past and I'll say it again. Unless the government nationalizes the infrastructure, big business will choke...
- Tags: Government, Internet, fundamental right, Fundamental Rights, fundamental value, Internet access
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
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