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Leach, Todd J. – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2021
Remote learning was a key component of college strategies for addressing the COVID-19 crisis across the country. While many colleges already supported online delivery, others migrated course content to remote platforms for the first time. According to Holin IQ, the last half of 2020 saw the second largest amount of spending on information…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Virtual Universities
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Villar-Onrubia, Daniel; Rajpal, Brinder – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2016
Virtual mobility initiatives are one of the most flexible, versatile and inclusive approaches in the provision of international experience opportunities. Given that in most universities only a small fraction of students can benefit from forms of academic mobility that involve travelling abroad, Internet-based intercultural interactions prove to be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Universities, Distance Education, Global Approach
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Contacos-Sawyer, Jonna; Revels, Mark; Ciampa, Mark – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to identify the key elements of a High Performance Work System (HPWS) and explore the possibility of implementation in an online institution of higher learning. With the projected rapid growth of the demand for online education and its importance in post-secondary education, providing high quality curriculum, excellent…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Distance Education, Program Implementation, Administrative Principles
Parry, Marc – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Evolve or dissolve. That advice, from a recent report on virtual universities, played out in two news stories last May 2009. The University of Texas' online division is staring down a deep budget hole as it loses a longtime subsidy. In Utah, budget cuts have killed a 10-campus online consortium. Those and other predicaments reflect the growing…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education, Budgets
Constantinescu, Dana; Stefansson, Gunnar – Online Submission, 2010
This paper describes some of the principles for building a freely available web-based university with open content. The "tutor-web" is an international project for web-assisted education, including such free and open access. This project was initiated by the University of Iceland in partnership with many universities around the world,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Uses in Education, Online Courses
WCET, 2011
A select group of academic officers and deans from institutions (all sectors) whose programs are primarily online and whose teaching faculty differ considerably from traditional faculty participated in the Academic Leadership Forum, October 26, 2011, held in conjunction with WCET's (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies') Annual Meeting.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Faculty Workload, Leadership, Online Courses
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Charlier, Bernadette – American Journal of Distance Education, 2011
This article describes and analyzes actors' experiences of distance learning systems in a wide variety of cultural and organizational contexts. In line with the project of this special series of issues, results of research, much of which is longitudinal, allow us to suggest answers to the following questions: Who are the actors of distance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Educational Trends, Educational Technology
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Laohajaratsang, Thanomporn – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
As e-learning in the academic sector serves as a crucial driving force in the development of e-learning in Thailand, this article looks at e-learning readiness in Thailand with a focus on the academic sector. The article is divided into four parts: (1) a brief history of e-learning in Thailand; (2) the infrastructure related to e-learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Postsecondary Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Suzuki, Katsuaki – International Journal on E-Learning, 2009
This article describes the creation of a fully online master's program for e-learning specialist training. This program is the first of its kind in Japan. As background information, Japan's general trends in e-learning are described, including activities of the e-Learning Consortium Japan and National Institute of Multimedia in Education. Such…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Curriculum Design, Masters Programs, Foreign Countries
Puzziferro, Maria; Shelton, Kaye – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2008
As the demand for online education continues to increase, institutions are faced with developing process models for efficient, high-quality online course development. This paper describes a systems, team-based, approach that centers on an online instructional design theory ("Active Mastery Learning") implemented at Colorado State…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Instructional Design, Online Courses, Systems Approach
Oblinger, Diana – Trusteeship, 2007
The increasingly common term "online education" includes distance education as well as traditional courses with online components. The success of online education suggests that most institutions can serve more students, offer unique programs, and better serve working adults. This article discusses why more students consider online education. Keys…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Computer Uses in Education, Web Based Instruction
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Weschke, Barbara; Canipe, Stephen – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2010
The presentation will trace the experiences of two program directors from Walden University and their examination of issues involved with faculty assessment. Their experiences were used to create a simple but effective and workable model for faculty assessment and development. Once a presentation of how data were obtained, and analyzed, to create…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, College Faculty, Curriculum Implementation, Program Descriptions
Ubell, Robert – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2007
This article describes WebCampus.Stevens, the online graduate education and corporate training unit of Stevens Institute of Technology, which delivers one of the largest and most effective asynchronous learning network (ALN) and blended programs of any college or university in the New York metropolitan region. Under a newly awarded Sloan…
Descriptors: Corporations, Professional Development, Virtual Universities, Online Courses
WCET, 2008
Much attention has been focused on the accountability, student learning outcomes, transfer of credit, and illegal file sharing provisions of the two related bills that have moved through the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives to amend and extend the provisions of the 1965 Higher Education Act (S. 1642 and H.R. 4137). One of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Integrity
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Kalman, Yoram M.; Leng, Paul H. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2007
Online delivery of programmes of Higher Education typically involves a distributed community of students interacting with a single university site, at which the teachers, learning resources and administration of the programme are located. The alternative model, of a fully "Virtual University", which assumes no physical campus, poses…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, Higher Education, Quality Control, Graduate Students
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