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5/06

ON INTEROPERABILITY, OPEN SOURCE, DIGITAL REPOSITORIES, RICH MEDIA, AND MORE
The backbone of almost every article published in Educational Pathways is built around in-depth telephone interviews with key administrators, faculty and staff who work directly inside the field of online teaching and learning in higher education. In similar fashion, a long talk with Rob Abel, the new executive director of IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS/GLC), brought more important online teaching and learning issues to light for publication here. MORE

IMS/GLC SUMMIT TO BE HELD ON JUNE 19-22
“This year, for the first time, we are adding a whole day of executive sessions that specifically address key industry challenges that would be very understandable by leaders of online learning,” says Rob Abel IMS/GLC’s new executive director. MORE

IMS/GLC LEARNING INDUSTRY LEADERS FORUM FOR END-USERS
The IMS/GLC recently formed the Learning Industry Leaders Forum (LILF) for the purpose of enabling broad participation in the activities of IMS/GLC by end-user organizations and for the sharing of best practices in learning technology innovation. MORE

DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH CLASS SIZE ISSUES
By John Sener. Class size is a key component of course design, delivery cost, learning effectiveness, faculty and student satisfaction, and many other important factors in fully online and blended courses. One widely held view is that the “ideal” maximum class size is relatively small (10 to 25 students). Although plenty of opinion and anecdotal experience support this view of class size, such conventional wisdom is typically a reflexive application of classroom design mores and principles that have been applied to online and blended learning environments. MORE

"ENTERING THE AGE OF BRANDS"
The 3rd Annual Presidents’ Forum of Excelsior College, held on March 28, brought together a strong group of experienced educational leaders and stakeholders from the distance learning community. Peter Stokes, executive vice president of Eduventures, LLC, a Boston-based research and consulting firm, gave a keynote presentation titled “Entering the Age of Brands: Growing Online Higher Education Enrollments in a Maturing Market.” MORE

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