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Distance
Learning University
Need
some help getting "up to speed" on distance
learning? You've come to the right place!
REPORTS
In the past year or so, there have
been some seminal research studies conducted on the
Internet and the emerging field of distance
learning. We know you meant to get around to
reading them (ahem!), but you've got such little time
and the reports are so big. Well, we've
distilled the biggest and best to their
essence---hundreds of pages down to fewer than
fifty. Enjoy!
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great place to
start is with the landmark
report presented by a
special Web-Based
Education Committee to
the U.S. Congress in
December 2000.
Check out our abbreviated,
Adobe Acrobat version
of the Committee's
report, The
Power of the Internet
for Learning.
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has
undertaken a mammoth longitudinal study of
Internet users. Here's an Adobe Acrobat
summary of their first report, titled The
UCLA Internet Report: Surveying the Digital
Future.
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and the World
Lecture Hall are two premier sites where
instructors share resources on distance
learning. Researcher Curtis Bonk surveyed users of these
sites and came up with some very interesting
findings. Read all about it in our Adobe Acrobat
summary of his report, Online
Teaching in an Online World.
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| The Council for Higher
Education Accreditation was commissioned by the
National Education Association and Blackboard,
Inc., to compile and verify a list of benchmarks
for quality Internet-based distance
education. Here's an Adobe PDF summary of
their report, Quality
on the Line: Benchmarks for Success in
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| The Council for Higher
Education Accreditation also releases regular reports
on the state of distance learning in the
U.S. Here's an Adobe Acrobat summary of
their 2000 report, Distance
Learning in Higher Education. |
TIPS
We've gathered dozens of tips
from our seminars---tips on using email, discussions,
and chat rooms with your students as well as ideas for
building community in your online classes.
They're in our Adobe Acrobat document Ideas
for Distance Learning.
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Is there a "course" you'd
like to see in the Distance Learning
University? If so, write us at
cogsim@cogsim.com.
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