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7/06

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. MORE

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. MORE

A WORD ON STATE BARRIERS AND REGULATIONS WHEN PROVIDING DISTANCE EDUCATION ACROSS STATE BORDERS
We refer to Michael Goldstein, practice leader, postsecondary education, for Dow, Lohnes & Albertson, PLLC, in Washington, D.C. MORE

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. MORE

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. MORE

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." MORE

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. MORE

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