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Tighe, Wendy L. – Inquiry, 2006
The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is increasingly offering more Web-based, online orientation courses to students. Since the fall semester of 1999, the community college campuses throughout the VCCS have offered over 100 sections of online orientation courses. However, no assessment data or research for these courses or students exists.…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Courses, School Orientation, First Year Seminars
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Newtzie, Karen; Smith, Leslie – Inquiry, 2005
In higher education, faculty are often encouraged to collaborate with their colleagues, to--as the "American Heritage Dictionary" defines it--"work together in a joint intellectual effort." The authors often think of such projects as occurring within a department or on a particular campus, but they have discovered that even…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, Distance Education, Teacher Collaboration
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Crampton, Jeremy – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1998
Describes the rationale and structure of a distributed learning course on African regional geography at three Northern Virginia universities. Outlines the creation and holdings of a shared virtual library of course resources. Notes problems with integrating Web material into the curriculum, ensuring a high degree of interactivity, and site…
Descriptors: African Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Course Descriptions