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May, 2001
Editor's Corner
More links from
the ever evolving web.
Cheers,
Bruce
Comments and
suggestions are always welcome. Send them to blbird@mail.aacc.cc.md.us
Faculty View
Grade Inflation:
It's Time to Face the Facts
Professors
Duel Students on Web Sites
Union
Publishes Guide Citing High Cost of Distance Education
"Uncertain
Times"
The Annual Report
on the Economic Status of the Profession
2000-2001
(AAUP report)
Student View
Oberlin Student
Newspaper Is Readable on Handheld Computers
*Teenage
Overload, or Digital Dexterity?
Assessment
ASSESSING
GENERAL EDUCATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF PRINCE GEORGE’S COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Assessment
Takes Center Stage in Online Learning - Distance educators see the need to prove
that they teach effectively
National Center for Higher Education
Management Systems (NCHEMS) "Through its more than
thirty years of service to higher education, NCHEMS has been committed to
bridging the gap between research and practice by placing the latest
managerial concepts and tools in the hands of working administrators on
college and university campuses."
Faculty
Resources
Faculty
Development AT HONOLULU
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
"THE MOST COLORFUL, COMPREHENSIVE, AND EXCITING FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SITE ON
THE INTERNET"
Research Index
Microsoft
in Education - Tutorials
Search
Engine Tutorials
FindTutorials.com
TIPS - Online
- a project of California Community Colleges
The
New York Times Launches College Times Web Site at NYTimes.com/college
(April 4, 2001)
Distributed
Education
eArmyU
Scholars Use the
Web to Hold Forth on Distance Education
Editors Note: The following
three articles, all on the same topic, serve as a good illustration of the
different ways a story can be reported.
Auditing
Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free , NY Times -Technology -
Online April 4, 2001
MIT Will Proceed
With Plan to Place Course Materials Online ,The Chronicle of Higher
Education, April 5, 2001
MIT
Cheered From a Distance , Wired News, April 5, 2001
Distance-Educator.com
"Our interest in and
passion for distance teaching and learning has lasted for decades. The field is
growing every day and the future is bright. And our goal is to become your
primary source for information in the field for many years to come."
Teaching with Technology
Serious
Instructional Technology
Electronic Publishing
Adobe
and Amazon Start Electronic Publishing Partnership
Web Page Design
Web
Accessibility: Accessibility Design Issues
XML
Tutorials
XML's Tower
Of Babel
ScriptingNews
e-Learning
NETg
Becomes the E-learning Provider for the University of Phoenix; University
of Phoenix Selects NETg to Help Create Customizable Courseware for
Technology and Business Programs
NETg
Trends?
Peer-to-Peer
Napster Was Just
the Start of the Bandwidth Invasion - Colleges try to stay one step ahead
of students who use the latest file-sharing services
Gnutella
Clip2
Gnutella
and the Transient Web (3/22/01)
*Groove
Program Lets Users Share Almost Anything
Online International Herald Tribune (April 2, 2001) "This
is the next step in the World Wide Web. Until now, Internet users have typically
been passive recipients of stuff that's posted on Web sites. Groove turns each
user into a broadcaster as well as a receiver. It enables two or more computers
to hook up to one another directly and exchange information in real time. It is
Napster for data and ideas. In one sense, it is what the Internet is all
about."
P2P
with Groove
Groove
Hardware
Handheld,
phones emerge as major gaming platform
Internet
Inescapably
Connected: Life in the Wireless Age
Transmedia
Pioneers: The Future According to Nielsen and Laurel
Broadband
for Publishers: A Speeding, Silver Bullet (Requires Real Player
or Media Player)
CubicEye
sees 3D Web
Commerce
Department Says It Will Give Educause Control of Internet's '.edu' Domain
UserLand
Announces XML-based Internet Backbone
Media
Yahoo! Broadcast
Editor's Note: An opening screen at this site provides a chance for you to have
your computer tested for various media players and update them if necessary. I
highly recommend the free RealPlayer 8 and Flash 5 players at a minimum.
If you don't have these installed on your computer, then you are missing much of
the evolving web and the important options for teaching and learning that these
technologies provide. If you have problems with either of these players,
let me know and I will see what I can do to get them running properly on your
machine.
informaMedia.com
MetaTV
Ultimate TV
Microsoft TV Solutions
State of
the Art: Videodiscs With You as Director
Impact?
*Professor
Says Distance Education Will Flop Unless Universities Revamp Themselves
(The Chronicle 4/10/01)
"In the 1990's, when business and industry decided to adopt
postmodern technologies, what we now call information technologies, to
bring down their cost of operation and increase their productivity, they
were also talking about massive organizational restructuring. The term
that was used in business and industry was re-engineering the corporation.
Re-engineering the corporation meant that their entire management system
needed to be changed. We haven't seen anything of the sort in
universities."
"A professor's job would be managing a team of professionals of
subject-matter specialists, or he could be the subject-matter specialist
himself. Instructional designers would be on his team. Educational
technologists would be on his team. People who know how to evaluate would
be on his team. People who can program would be on their team. The team
may not be assigned to one particular faculty on a full-time basis. There
are economies of scale in all of this."
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