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5/02

PEERING INTO THE FUTURE OF WEB-BASED SERVICES FOR ONLINE LEARNERS
Among numerous past and present WCET undertakings is a three-year collaborative project now in its last year called "Beyond the Administrative Core: Creating Web-based Student Services for Online Learners." Beyond the Administrative Core, which is a Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnerships (LAAP) grant project, was "designed to address time- and location-independent access to student support services for distance education students." MORE

RESOURCES ON WEB-BASED SERVICES FOR ONLINE LEARNERS
These include books, webcasts and model services . . . MORE

NEW SCHOOL FOR A NEW STUDENT
Perhaps being based in Greenwich Village has something to do with the reason why New School Online University (NSOU) is so innovative when it comes to providing Web-based student services to its online student body. MORE

WSU'S OL STUDENT GOVERNMENT AND ALUMNI MENTOR PROGRAM
Washington State University met the challenge of building a sense of belonging for their online students back in 1998 when it started, among a number of innovative students services for its distance students, a completely online student government. MORE

SNHU AND THE DEFINITION OF QUALITY ONLINE DISTANCE EDUCATION
New Hampshire is customarily noted for its spectacular fall foliage, picturesque villages and rolling farmland. The state is also gaining widespread recognition for a top-notch online distance education (ODE) program offered at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU). MORE

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FUNDS INSTITUTE FOR ONLINE ED AT SNHU
In July of this year, SNHU will be cutting the ribbon on the grand opening of a new congressionally funded Southern New Hampshire University Institute for Online Education. MORE

SLOAN-C STUDY COVERS IMPORTANT QUESTIONS ABOUT QUALITY
"Elements of Quality Online Learning," the third volume in the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) series, explains how people in private, public and for-profit online education are building their educational efforts around what Sloan-C calls the five pillars of quality: learning effectiveness, cost effectiveness, access, student satisfaction and faculty satisfaction. MORE

"WEB CENTER FOR LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS RESEARCH" BUILDING KNOWLEDGE-BASE OF EMPIRICAL STUDIES
"Web Center for Learning Networks Effectiveness Research"  Building Knowledge-Base of Empirical Studies "The goal of this research program is to increase the quality, quantity, and dissemination of results of research on the effectiveness of Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN).  It will synthesize existing knowledge and create new knowledge about the methods and findings of research on the determinants of effectiveness of ALN, and to make the results available worldwide." MORE

STUDY SHOWS CLASSROOM FACULTY PERCEIVE COLLEAGUES' DISTANCE TEACHING UNFAVORABLY
Study Shows Classroom Faculty Perceive Colleagues'  Distance Teaching Unfavorably University of New England Professor of Education Michael F. Beaudoin recently published the results of his research titled "From Campus to Cyberspace: The Transition of Classroom Faculty to Distance Education Roles." MORE

BACK TO THE FUTURE: CAN TECHNOLOGY PUT THE LEARNER BACK IN THE CENTER?
by Gordon Freedman An evolution that had once placed the learner in the center has been put on hold. Can technology bring it back? MORE

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