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- Faculty Attitudes Toward Distance Education at the State University of West Georgia
- The purpose of the study presented in this paper was to identify possible factors that affect faculty attitudes toward distance education. Results indicated a significant difference in attitude among those who had taught distance courses and those who had not, leading to the conclusion that experience breeds acceptance. The primary...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Distance Learning: Promises, Problems, and Possibilities
- Distance learning and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often falls short of what it attempts to accomplish. Some of the shortcomings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with...
- Tags: Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- e-Learning for Smaller Rurally Based Businesses: A Demand-Led Challenge for Scottish Educational Institutions
- The drives towards globalization and the impact of the information age are all around, often in confusing abundance. Yet knowledge and ideas within this new economy can only add value to goods and services if they are adequately harnessed. Within such a swirling idea-based environment, businesses will more than ever...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Globalization, E-learning, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Maintaining Academic Integrity in Online Education
- Online education has come under a great deal of scrutiny over the issue of academic integrity. It is assumed that cheating and plagiarism are a greater problem online than in a traditional class. In reality, maintaining academic integrity is equally a challenge in both delivery modes. However, by the very...
- Tags: Education, Integrity, University Of West Georgia
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- Faculty Recruitment Strategies for Online Programs
- This paper addresses faculty recruitment for online programs. Related issues are faculty perceptions, program processes, and administrative supports. At traditional academic institutions, it is a challenge for program administrators to recruit admirable faculty members to teach in the online programs. The complaints and concerns expressed by the detractors need to...
- Tags: Program, University Of West Georgia, Faculty Recruitment, Strategy, Management
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- Distance Education: Facing the Faculty Challenge
- For a variety of reasons, faculty resist efforts to force them into distance learning. They resist individually or as a whole, often seeking the guidance of union representatives. While individual faculty members may have individual reasons to resist participating in the latest wave of distance education, there are several reasons...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Faculty, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Bringing It All Together
- Faculty are moving forward, technologies are improving, and student demand is increasing?but few changes are taking place in the university structure as a whole to accommodate the special needs of the distance-learning student. More attention needs to be given to organizational structures that service the distance learner. There has never...
- Tags: Student, University Of West Georgia, Organizational Structure, Human Resources
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- Case-Study: A Satellite-Based Internet Learning System for the Hospitality Industry
- This paper describes and evaluates the Northern Arizona University NAU pilot program for delivering training and continuing education programs to students at homes and hospitality establishments using a combination of satellite and Internet technologies. This investigation involved the delivery of three different hospitality courses to four different Arizona sites using...
- Tags: Industry, University Of West Georgia, Satellite, Internet, Network Technology, Networking
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- Six Factors to Consider When Planning Online Distance Learning Programs in Higher Education
- The Internet and the World Wide Web WWW have made the process of obtaining an education without regard to time or location easier for the student. At the same time, they have provided more challenges for the colleges providing this education. In online distance learning, not only does the instruction...
- Tags: Education, Distance Learning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Factors That Deter Faculty From Participating in Distance Education
- "Technological change is what many have said is the only constant in the work today". As technology changes, one's need to adapt to these changes increases. Information technology is not just contained within the world wide web, computers or the Internet - it is integrated into all aspects of our...
- Tags: Distance Education, Information Technology, Change, University Of West Georgia, Technology, E-learning, Internet, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management
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- Recruitment and Development of Online Adjunct Instructors
- Adjunct faculty is used heavily in the community college setting. Community colleges are market-sensitive, and strive to serve the community. With the advent of distance learning, community colleges now serve a global community. Distance learning managers will frequently recruit faculty from the institutional full time faculty pool. However, with recent...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Transitioning From Brick and Mortar to Online: A Faculty Perspective
- As an institution of higher learning in healthcare, the Medical College of Georgia MCG has turned to distance education as an opportunity to increase enrollment and deliver high-tech education to its students. This viable solution was used by MCG to address the need to stay abreast of the many technological...
- Tags: Distance Education, University Of West Georgia, Health Care, E-learning, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Best Practices for Administrative Evaluation of Online Faculty
- This paper demonstrates how to evaluate the materials and teaching in online courses. Topics covered include similarities with evaluation of on-ground teaching, factors unique to online courses, technological considerations, helping administrators unfamiliar with online courses, and national standards, rubrics, and benchmarks. Much research has recently been done regarding the effectiveness...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Best Practice, Course, Quality, Business Operations
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- A Framework for Operational Decision-Making in Course Development and Delivery
- This paper will discuss factors that influence operational decision-making during curriculum and course development and delivery, how these factors integrate, findings in the literature and how they apply to the practical context. Finally, the paper provides a framework to support decision-making processes involved in the online instructional practice within distance...
- Tags: Distance Education, Decision-making, University Of West Georgia, Tools & Techniques, E-learning, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Student Motivation for Learning at a Distance: Does Interaction Matter?
- The study presented in this paper evaluated a distance education program offered by a land-grant university agricultural college. The study used Holmberg's and Moore's theoretical frameworks of didactic conversation and multiple interactions to determine the importance of interaction on the efficacy of distance learning. The mixed methods approach used an...
- Tags: Interaction, University Of West Georgia, Motivation, E-learning, Marketing Research, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
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- Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism
- Online student assessment features in many distance-learning programs. The prevention of plagiarism has been the subject of much attention, but insufficient attention has been given to other problems of dishonesty in online assessment. This paper surveys the types of problems that can occur and what can be done about them.
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Marketing Research, Marketing
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- A Planning and Assessment Model for Developing Effective CMS Support
- At the University of Florida, in Spring 2003, more than 32,000 individuals enrolled in courses using the centrally-supported Course Management System CMS. Because less than 1 full time equivalent FTE was allocated to support the CMS, this created problems for both users and support providers. In the face of rapid...
- Tags: University Of West Georgia, Content Management System, Content Management, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Strategy, Software, Human Resources, Management
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- Perceptions of Faculty on the Effect of Distance Learning Technology on Faculty Preparation Time
- Over the course of three consecutive semesters, faculty members involved in both video-conference-based and online-based distance learning environments were surveyed in order to determine their perception regarding the technical support services, equipment, training and additional preparation time it takes to teach in a distance environment. The results showed that the...
- Tags: Preparation, Distance Learning, Environment, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
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- Thirty-Two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning
- Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This paper provides decision makers with 32 trends that affect distance learning and thus enable them to plan accordingly. The trends are...
- Tags: Trend, Distance Education, Distance Learning, Strategic Planning, University Of West Georgia, E-learning, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Nortel Networks Case Study: University of West Georgia
- The University of West Georgia serves 10,000-plus students and proudly proclaims its motto of "Educational Excellence in a Personal Environment." They wanted uniform telephone service across campus, and they needed the flexibility to serve 43 buildings with varying densities of phone lines - from 5 to 20 people in smaller...
- Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., University Of West Georgia, Nortel Communication Server 1000M, Telecom & Utilities, VOIP, Telecommunications, Networking
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