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Stewart, Shelley; Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre; Shircliffe, Barbara J. – Journal of Educators Online, 2013
Transforming a face to face course to a computer mediated format in social foundations (interdisciplinary field in education), while maintaining pedagogical integrity, involves strategic collaboration between instructional technologists and content area experts. This type of planned partnership requires open dialogue and a mutual respect for prior…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Delivery Systems, Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Design
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Reitmeyer, Morgan T. – Across the Disciplines, 2009
The article explores three WAC/WID programs that were presented in 1990 in "Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum" by Toby Fulwiler and Art Young. The author interviewed current directors of the University of Michigan program, the University of Chicago Little Red Schoolhouse, and the George Mason…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Writing Across the Curriculum, Interviews, Administrator Attitudes
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Kuboni, Olabisi – Distance Education, 2009
A key component of conventional distance education organizations has been the network of local study centres, set up to serve as a bridge between students and the educational organization. With the capacity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enable direct contact between the educational institution and its dispersed students,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Study Centers, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
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Donald, David; Wallace, Iain – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
The Joint Information Systems Committee and the National Science Foundation programme, Digital Libraries in the Classroom (DLiC), addresses implications for the learning of the revolution in scholarly communication. What are the obstacles to undergraduates "'writing' on and for the Internet"? Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) is a…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Multimedia Materials
Almeida d'Eca, Teresa – 1999
This paper describes three government-funded technology programs in Portugal and the changes they brought about in Portuguese schools: (1) Project MINERVA (Computing Means in Education: Rationalization, Valorization, Actualization), launched in 1985 and ended in 1994, was an innovative program to introduce new technologies in schools; (2) Program…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Change
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Hope, Andrea; Butcher, Bob – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
Hong Kong's economic fortunes have always depended on trade with China. By the mid-1980s, the colonial higher education system was catering to only 6% of the 18-20 age cohort and there was a backlog of adult learners who had been denied access. The Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong was launched in 1989 to overwhelming public response. It…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Adult Students, Foreign Countries
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Moiseeva, Marina – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
The history of distance education in Russia and in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is a history of dramatic change in ideology, conceptual framework, and approach. It can be divided into two main stages: initial formation and development into the world's largest system of correspondence learning, from the mid 1920s to the…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Role of Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education