Teaching and Administering Distance Education Practices

Teaching and Administering Distance Education Practices

Distance education is no longer the great evil. Many DE techniques and strategies are

used in more traditional learning environments. In fact, it

is often said that the distance between a lecturer and a

student is greater than the distance between teachers and

students in DE environments. This is difficult to pull off as a

teacher, and even more difficult from the administrative side.

There are competing forces at work. Still, we're all on the same

time, aren't we?"

Distance Learning: It's Not a Question of If but of How

Mark WalbertPete Sands

Judi KirkpatrickSusan LangJoel EnglishTrish Harris

Cynthia Jeney

“If one is going to go down this path then one must

devote the proper resources to creating a quality learning experience for those ‘on-line’

students. That means the University must support the

best teachers in their learning to teach well over the Web.”

Hybridity as an Ethical Choice



Cynthia Jeney

“If the Web appears to be pushing both students and

teachers simultaneously into a shared, public, published space, then we can say that

such a push rotates their relationship from a

traditionally vertical to a new horizontal axis.”

Distance education is no longer the great evil.



Cynthia Jeney

“The very best teachers are best equipped to take the new tools of the technological and information revolution and harness them for best possible use, developing models for good practice. The

more teachers become practiced users themselves, the more their

teaching will be transformed.”

Distance Education at Texas Tech University:Getting Started and Getting Established



Cynthia Jeney

“No longer will the same individual be responsible for teaching a particular group of students and responding to

their documents. Instead, the evaluation of student

documents will be shared by a number of individuals.”

Distance Education and the Writing Classroom:Shall We Enter the Game?



Cynthia Jeney

“Make no mistake: the university is a business,

and distance ed is believed to be a fat cow out of

whose teats squirt cash.”

Profit and Pedagogy: Addressing theChallenges and Achieving Balance



Cynthia Jeney

“Corporations and educators are not on opposite sides of the court. We urge each other toward improvements we might not

have otherwise considered. The administration's infatuation with the bottom

line, and the corporate world's desire for market share, will achieve balance as

teachers continue to resist homogeneity and risk what seems like everything to

help learners understand, think, and write.”

If the Apocalypse comes...Email Me" ...OR... "All I need to know

about online Distance Ed, I learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer"



Cynthia Jeney

“I’ll just admit it. I want to ride ponies. I want to rattle the chains. I dig the thrill of discussion and mind-play, the action and reaction of ideas bouncing off walls, and the bio-mass of brains in bodies that can make it all electric and make it all come apart and then pull together. I especially

want my students to learn how to make all that happen on their own, or in a bunch, or on the job, or in Acapulco, or wherever.”

Teaching and Administering Distance Education PracticesCW2002 Townhall-1, Coordinated by Rich Rice

Mark Walbert ([email protected])Pete Sands ([email protected])Judi Kirkpatrick ([email protected])Susan Lang ([email protected])Joel English ([email protected])Trish Harris ([email protected])Cynthia Jeney ([email protected])

This presentation can be found through http://www.bsu.edu/classes/rice/townhalls;the online conference townhall chat from last Friday is at http://www.eaze.net:7000/2317.

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Teaching and Administering Distance Education Practices