March 2005, Vol. 4, Issue 3
BOOSTING ONLINE ENROLLMENTS AND INCREASING REVENUES THROUGH
SUMMER ONLINE COURSES
James Madison University's Center for Instructional Design
developed a "novel approach" that increased online course
enrollments and revenues: They created fully online
undergraduate and graduate summer-semester courses.
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SUMMARY OF JMU'S SUMMER INSTITUTE FACULTY EVALUATIONS
Summer Institute faculty evaluations for 2002 through 2004
show that, overall, faculty have been very satisfied.
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UT TELECAMPUS COST STUDY COMPARES DELIVERY COSTS OF ONLINE
EDUCATION TO TRADITIONAL FACE-T0-FACE EDUCATION
In early 2002, when the Board of Regents of the University
of Texas (UT) System asked the virtual campus of the System
- the UT TeleCampus - about the cost effectiveness of online
education compared to traditional education, the UT
TeleCampus decided that the easiest place to start such a
cost analysis was to compare delivery costs as opposed to
developmental costs.
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DEVELOPMENTAL COST COMPARISON
SLATED FOR SUMMER '05
Associate Director of the UT TeleCampus Rob Robinson's
delivery cost comparison of online and face-to-face courses
has resulted in plans for a second initiative, to compare
developmental costs, that is slated to begin this summer and
take approximately six months to complete.
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THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE: HOW THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE CURRICULUM TRANSFORMED INTO A BLENDED
TEACHING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
In August 2003, the University of Vermont College of
Medicine launched a new integrated curriculum that merged
tradition and innovation.
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TIPS AND TRICKS FOR DEVELOPERS AND TECH FOLKS
Courtesy of Jill Jemison, manager of COMET, the online
learning initiative at the University of Vermont College of
Medicine.
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