__     __ __     __ __     __  web's eye view (September 9, 1999)
| | /| / /| | /| / /| | /| / /  alan levine
| |/ |/ / | |/ |/ / | |/ |/ /   Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction
|__/ |__/ |__/|__/  |__/|__/    http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/
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Some folks were "laboring" lasy weekend and filled up another Bag of URLs,
ready for pickup at

   http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/eye/bag/curr.html



Rio Salado featured in Converge Magazine
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See  "Going the Distance", september 1999 issue of "Converge Magazine", a
free publication fovcusing on educational technology:

http://www.convergemag.com/Publications/CNVGSept99/FeatureRioSalado/FeatureRioSa
lado.shtm


Who is an Expert?
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| Yes! The Internet is a great research resource! Yes! The
| Internet can put information at your fingertips that you
| used to find only in the public library! Yes! The Internet
| gives you access to government information, news sources,
| and academic institutions like never before!
|
| No! The Internet cannot answer all your research questions!
|
| In the case like this, you have to ask-a-human. Fortunately,
| the Internet is not short of humans, and some of them are
| experts who encourage questions!

continued at:
http://www.researchbuzz.com/articles/askanexpert.html


Adjunct Faculty Resource
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Among the pile in our "inbox"....

| From: AdjunctScs@aol.com
| Subject: Increase Your Center's Impact
|
| Earlier this year Allyn & Bacon published "The Adjunct
| Professor's Guide to Success," designed especially to
| enhance the teaching performance of new and veteran adjunct
| instructors.  Written by Dr. Richard Lyons and colleagues,
| the guide was recently featured in The Chronicle of Higher
| Education, and has become the top-seller among all titles
| focused on part-time teaching at both Amazon.com and
| BarnesandNoble.com!  (Access either of these cyberstores for
| more information on the guide's approach and contents.)
|
| During the guide's launch period, your center can obtain a
| 25% quantity discount off the list price -- obtaining 5
| copies for the price of 4!  For details, telephone Allyn &
| Bacon's Amy Goldmacher, at 1-800-455-2234, ext. 7556.
|
| Denise Barkwell, Communications Coordinator

Barriers to Distance Education Survey
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| Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:01:16 -0400
| From: "Zane L. Berge, Ph.D." <berge@umbc.edu>
| Subject: Barriers to Distance Education Survey
|
| Colleagues,
|
| This message is for anyone who perceives barriers to teaching or
| learning at a distance.  Even if you have never taught a course
| online, or even if your organization is not presently involved in
| distance learning, please read on! (If I have sent you more than
| one copy of this request, I apologize.  I am using multiple
| contact lists of mine both online and offline and may duplicate
| efforts over time.)
|
| As I identify and try to make sense of barriers to distance
| education it has become clear that a "laundry-list" of obstacles
| to teaching and learning at a distance is only a first step.  By
| itself, listing dozens of obstacles is not very useful for most
| educators and trainers.
|
| I think there is value in identifying the most common barriers.
| These appear to depend upon the stage or level of experience that
| the individual or the organization has developed regarding
| distance education.  Therefore, I think responses are important
| from persons who are currently using distance education and from
| those currently not using distance education.  The barriers
| perceived by an individual may also depend upon the type of
| organization he/she works in, or the type of delivery system most
| commonly used by the distance educator.
|
| I invite your assistance in further data gathering by completing
| the survey located at:
| http://cgi.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/dharley/misc/barrier_survey.pl
|
| Field testing found that most people completed the survey in
| 13-15 minutes.  If you provide your accurate email address on the
| survey where indicated, I will notify you of results.  Your answers
| should reflect your individual response, and not try to reflect your
| entire organization or any group of people besides yourself.
|
| I would also appreciate your distributing this call for
| participation widely to colleagues or mailing lists to which you
| subscribe/own.
|
| If you have worked on barriers to distance education, or you
| have found articles that have been particularly useful to you
| in this area, I would appreciate your jotting me a note citing
| those documents.
|
| Regards,
| Zane Berge
| berge@umbc.edu
| Moderator's Homepage:
|  http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mpc3/moderators.html