EARNING A DOCTORATE AT A DISTANCE and DOCUTEK

EARNING A DOCTORATE AT A DISTANCE: FOUR UNIVERSITIES OFFERING ADVANCED DEGREES IN INSTRUCTIONAL/EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
In my ongoing quest to provide useful information to the readers of Educational Pathways, I took an in-depth look at four doctoral programs in instructional design and/or educational technology that are taught at a distance, but not fully at a distance. These programs can be considered flexible enough to enable prospective students to earn a doctorate from their home base while maintaining their current employment. All four programs have some form of residency requirement. However, these residencies can typically be scheduled at convenient intervals of time, which, for the most part, can fit inside a working adult’s busy life without a disastrous disruption of one’s employment status (provided, of course, that you work within an administration that is understanding and willing to support such an educational endeavor). MORE

DOCUTEK REFLECTS GROWTH OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS' CHANGING NEEDS IN A DIGITAL AGE
Before Docutek Information Systems, Inc., became a technology company geared toward helping librarians meet the challenges of the Digital Age, it was Philip Kesten’s and Slaven Zivkovic’s labor of love that resulted in a software product for facilitating electronic study groups MORE

BRIEFS
Three short pieces covering an Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text-input boxes on a Web page; information about two shareware programs for administering quizzes and grade keeping online; and a brief answer to the question: What’s a Moodle? MORE