DISTANCE LEARNING : SUCCESS REQUIRES SUPPORT

Driving Web-Based Distance-Learning Success

Web-based distance learning has evolved to a point where those operating or contemplating such programs can profit from the experience of its early adopters and practitioners. This study uses as its basis the experiences of institutions—community colleges, large research universities, state/ regional systems, and elite private institutions—that have actively pursued Webbased distance-learning i...

Measuring Success in Web-Based Distance Learning

Collaboration Support in Networked Distance Learning

Learning is basically a social process. Experiences with Computer Supported Learning (CAL) over the last thirty years have shown that technology cannot substitute for some of the essential elements of this process, e.g. personal communication, face-toface collaboration, positive and negative reinforcement through fellow students, etc. Today, with local and wide area networks becoming a reality,...

Success in Payment Reform Requires

California Improvement Network (CIN) partners — provider groups and coalitions, health plans, and quality improvement organizations — gathered in February 2017 to discuss the payment landscape and how to prepare for likely changes. While health care policies were being debated in Washington, DC, the partners expressed concern about potential upheaval but also hope that any changes will enable t...

Distance Education Success Factors

While effective distance education has been practiced and studied for centuries, it has been in just the last decade that networked digital technology has been employed. Technologies and teaching techniques continue to evolve, and the options continue to expand, emphasizing the need for information that will assist distance education planners and participants in making decisions that will resul...