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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 Unexplored Territory of Distance Education for Multi-National Professionals in Project Management: This paper examines research into the development of a pedagogical framework for distance education DE in postgraduate project management studies at an Australian university as part of its strategy to deliver 'transnational' education. Project management requires development of technical, strategic, organisational and leadership competencies, but strategies to foster these professional...; Tags: Education, Distance Education, Competency, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, E-learning, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-10-26
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, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2004-10-01
Faculty Attitudes Toward Distance Education at the State University of West Georgia: The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to identify possible factors that affect faculty attitudes toward distance education. Results indicated a significant difference in attitude among those who had taught distance courses and those who had not, leading to the conclusion that experience breeds acceptance. The primary...; Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Distance Higher Education in the Arab Region: The Need for Quality Assurance Frameworks: This paper considers endeavors to disseminate distance higher education in the Arab region. In particular, three different structures are examined: distance education programs provided by traditional universities, open or distance education universities offering only programs from a distance, and a virtual university. Shortcomings of these endeavors due largely to the...; Tags: Education, Distance Education, QA, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers

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, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Transitioning From Brick and Mortar to Online: A Faculty Perspective: As an institution of higher learning in healthcare, the Medical College of Georgia MCG has turned to distance education as an opportunity to increase enrollment and deliver high-tech education to its students. This viable solution was used by MCG to address the need to stay abreast of the many technological...; Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Health Care, E-learning, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; White papers
A Framework for Operational Decision-Making in Course Development and Delivery: This paper will discuss factors that influence operational decision-making during curriculum and course development and delivery, how these factors integrate, findings in the literature and how they apply to the practical context. Finally, the paper provides a framework to support decision-making processes involved in the online instructional practice within distance...; Tags: Distance Education, Decision-making, University Of West Georgia, Tools & Techniques, E-learning, Management, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Leadership in Distance Education: Is It a Unique Type of Leadership - A Literature Review: The question of what a distance education leader is, the characteristics of such, the requirements of such, and the actions of an effective distance education leader still have not been adequately defined by the current research. There is still a long way to go before an adequate definition of these...; Tags: Distance Education, Leadership, Distance Education Leader, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Adult and Distance Education Management: An Application of the Metaphor "Organizations as Organisms": This paper discusses the metaphor "organizations as organisms" as conceived of by Garith Morgan in the books Images of Organization and Images of Organization: The Executive Edition. It applies the metaphor to adult and in particular distance education management and organizations in an attempt to conceptualize the incredibly complex reality...; Tags: Distance Education, Metaphor, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
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, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Distance Education Leadership for the New Century: A new role for the professoriate in the new millennium has been recognized and encouraged, especially as technology-assisted instruction has proliferated and changed the way teachers and students interact, as well as the manner in which educational entities must now do business to meet the demands of a digitized society....; Tags: Education, Distance Education, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
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, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Factors That Deter Faculty From Participating in Distance Education: "Technological change is what many have said is the only constant in the work today". As technology changes, one's need to adapt to these changes increases. Information technology is not just contained within the world wide web, computers or the Internet - it is integrated into all aspects of our...; Tags: Distance Education, Information Technology, Change, University Of West Georgia, Technology, E-learning, Internet, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers
Faculty Pedagogical Approach, Skill, and Motivation in Today's Distance Education Milieu: This paper explores the pedagogical approach, skill and motivation factors that influence or are influenced by distance education instructors. Advancing distance education in today's technology-driven milieu requires a different pedagogical approach whereby distance education students acquire knowledge. While distance education students want unconstrained access to learning regardless of time and...; Tags: Distance Education, Motivation, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
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, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
An Empirical Study of Course Selection and Divisional Structure in Distance Education Programs: Fifty-two U.S. colleges and universities were surveyed to gather data on structure and course selection in distance education programs. Concerns focused on the influence of distance education program structures on strategic selection of courses and resulting outcomes. Central to the study were the differentiation between structural choices of distance education...; Tags: Distance Education, Distance Education Program, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers
Advanced Distance Education Tools for All Our Learners - Part One: This webcast discusses on developing online curriculum and online resources for learning. It discusses some basic high-level issues, some best practices, and a bit of a skim over of courseware products and what is happening in that area.; Tags: Distance Education, E-learning, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Webcasts

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Open Office sweeps Sourceforge awards: The big winner? Open Office. It swept the awards for top project, top enterprise project, and top project in education. by Dana Blankenhorn; Tags: SourceForge, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2008-07-25
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-25