July-August 2006, Vol. 5, Issue 7
LEARNING OUTCOMES "TRANSPARENCY" AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR
DISTANCE EDUCATION PROVIDERS
In this special cover story, we review the Spellings
Commission's scathing draft on the future of higher
education, and we feature comments from President of Capella
University Mike Offerman and President of Western Governors
University Robert Mendenhall about the role that distance
education providers could play in establishing a system that
would collect meaningful data and report on learning
outcomes.
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ONLINE LEARNING SUPPORT VENDORS WORK ON DEVELOPING TOOLS FOR
TRACKING AND REPORTING ON LEARNING OUTCOMES
A very brief article about what eCollege and Blackboard have
on the drawing boards.
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E-PORTFOLIO ADOPTION IN TEACHER CREDENTIALING PROGRAM BRINGS
POSITIVE RESULTS
At Sonoma State University, teacher educators have figured
out how to use e-portfolios to get K-12 student/teachers to
reflect on and think hard about the way they teach.
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AN OVERVIEW OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK LEARNING
NETWORK'S SYSTEM-WIDE TRAINING OF FULLY ONLINE FACULTY
Alexandra Pickett, assistant director of the SLN Network and
a 12-year veteran of teaching faculty how to be effective
online teachers and learners, shares the many methods and
strategies she has developed for faculty development and
course design.
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HOW TO FACILITATE EFFECTIVE ONLINE INTERACTION
An excerpt from a paper by SLN's Alexandra Pickett, titled
"A Series of Unfortunate Online Events and How to Avoid
Them."
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AN INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE SIEMENS ON THE COMPLEXITIES OF
KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND ACQUISITION IN A NEW WORLD OF
LEARNING
Our question about the nature of each intended learning
experience driving the selection of tools and processes led
to a deep discussion about knowledge in the Digital Age.
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