This paper outlines the adaptation of a course on the management of network services in operating systems, called NetServicesOS, to the context of the new European Higher Education Area (EHEA). NetServicesOS is a mandatory course in one of the official graduate programs in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a…

Purpose: US community colleges are based on an open-door mission and serve to provide access to students of diverse backgrounds. Online learning is one of the fastest growing segments of community college offerings--serving both local and geographical dispersed students. If the community college system embraces its open-door mission, it must…

Discusses the development of a correspondence course in oral history at Brigham Young University (Utah). Examines the difficulties encountered when teaching such a course outside the classroom environment. Provides a list of course objectives and assesses its preliminary success. (GEA)

An interdisciplinary faculty team from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy (Missouri) and Albany College of Pharmacy (New York) collaborated in integrating a course on herbal products with a course on critical thinking. The collaboration was designed to improve students' professional critical thinking, communication, and ethical decision-making…

This book, written by a team of professional educational technologists drawing on their own experiences at DeMontfort University (England), examines the impact of information technology and the Internet on higher education. The authors caution that the technological possibilities should not be allowed to obscure a fundamental aim of higher…

This qualitative case study assessed web-based instruction in a computer-aided design/computer-assisted manufacturing (CAD/CAM) course designed for workforce development. The study examined students' and instructors' experience in a CAD/CAM course delivered exclusively on the Internet, evaluating course content and delivery, clarity of…