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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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Distance Learning: Promises, Problems, and Possibilities

Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often falls short of what it attempts to accomplish. Some of the shortcomings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with...

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Faculty Recruitment Strategies for Online Programs

This paper addresses faculty recruitment for online programs. Related issues are faculty perceptions, program processes, and administrative supports. At traditional academic institutions, it is a challenge for program administrators to recruit admirable faculty members to teach in the online programs. The complaints and concerns expressed by the detractors need to...

Tags: Program, University Of West Georgia, Faculty Recruitment, Strategy, Management

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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...

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Bringing It All Together

Faculty are moving forward, technologies are improving, and student demand is increasing?but few changes are taking place in the university structure as a whole to accommodate the special needs of the distance-learning student. More attention needs to be given to organizational structures that service the distance learner. There has never...

Tags: Student, University Of West Georgia, Organizational Structure, Human Resources

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Six Factors to Consider When Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education

The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. In online distance learning, not only does the instruction...

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52+5 reasons to go to Google I/O

On May 28th and 29th, Googlers from all over the world will converge on Moscone West for Google I/O, the company's largest ever developers conference. At last count, Google is sending 52 employees to speak at the San Francisco event, plus 5 more experts from outside the company. I'll be...

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