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Distance education has dramatically increased the educational opportunities for underserved populations. This is evidenced by the fairly recent proliferation and success of online universities, and it is happening in spite of criticism of e-learning ...

Access to technology in schools has increased substantially over the last decade. The tools are there, but recent reports are confirming the results of earlier studies: teachers are either not using the available technology at all or they are...

The demand for distance education is increasing as more people look for ways to achieve their educational goals without sacrificing other responsibilities. Distance programs are expanding (note the success of the University of Phoenix, for example). ...

Technology is viewed by many as the panacea for improving schools and student achievement. In spite of major technological advances, we still teach the way we did centuries ago. Requiring students to memorize and regurgitate facts, for example, is...

The one to one (1:1) approach is conceptually defined as an instructional environment where students have a computer and relevant software available to them 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This strategy enables learners to have immediate and...

The creators of YouTube.com have now moved into the educational arena. Designed especially for teachers, TeacherTube.com contains video clips chronically school and university life. Is this website an invaluable educational resource, or is it just a ...

The number of E-Learning courses has dramatically increased throughout the world in the past decade. The quality of these courses has spanned the full spectrum from questionable to exemplary practices. What can we learn from past efforts? In fact,...

Join over 200,000 educators in over 175 countries currently using Moodle. Moodle is an online course management system offering teachers a variety of tools to supplement and support their learning environments. One of the most powerful tools within ...

Faculty are often responsible for transforming traditional courses to online courses through ill-define, haphazard processes with little institutional support. A major public U.S. university, however, has designed and fully implemented a faculty...

This article presents a four-stage model for mentoring faculty in higher education to deliver high quality online instruction. It provides a timeline that shows the stages of program implementation. Known as the Distance Education Mentoring Program, ...

There seems to be much anecdotal evidence that many faculty members do experience shifts in pedagogical beliefs after successfully developing and teaching an online course. Some anecdotal accounts have been published in the professional literature; ...

If you are looking to design and implement a program that produces successful online faculty teaching effective online courses, then this session is for you. A proven, four-stage model for preparing and certifying higher education faculty to create...

Does developing and teaching an online course impact faculty’s pedagogical beliefs and result in them making changes to their other courses? This session will present anecdotal and empirical evidence that addresses this important question....

The Distance Education Mentoring program at Purdue University Calumet is a cohort-based mentoring program designed to support and assist faculty as they develop an online course. After four years, most of the innovators and early adopters of online...

This study summarizes the results of a program evaluation of the Distance Education Mentoring Program (DEMP), an ongoing initiative at Purdue University Calumet, Indiana (USA) designed to enhance the development of online courses by mentoring...

The Digital Learning Faculty Certificate Program at Purdue University Calumet is a cohort-based mentoring program designed to support and assist faculty as they develop an online or a digitally-enhanced course. Results from previous research studies ...