The Face of Distance Education in North America

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The Face of Distance Education in North
America

• Dr. Mel MuchniK
• Governors State University
• University Park, Illinois USA

m-muchnik_at_govst.edu
[phone]

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The Changing Face of Distance Education in
North America

• Dr. Mel MuchniK
• Governors State University
• University Park, Illinois USA

m-muchnik_at_govst.edu
[phone]

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So What is Distance Education?

• Moving information, not people
• Serving students away from the physical campus

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And its characteristics?

• Enabling Technologies
• Access and Quality
• Student Centered
• Global opportunities
• New roles or options for faculty
• New ways of thinking organization

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And whats the best way?

• There is no Magic Formula!

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Active Distance Learning (examples)

• National Technological Univ.(NTU)
• Open Learning Agency (BC)
• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
• Pennsylvania State University (USA)
• Empire State College, SUNY (USA)
• Dallas County Community College
• ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico
• University of British Columbia, Canada
• Governors State University (USA)
• PACE (Navy) - ABELINC (Community Colleges)

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Media Forum
www.com.unisa.edu.au/cmmediaforum
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Virtual Universities (examples)

• The World Lecture Hall (wwwhost.cc.utexas.
  edu/world/lecture)
  
• Western Governors University
  (www.wgu.edu)
  
• University of Maryland, Univ. College
  (www.umuc.edu)
  
• California Virtual University
  (www.virtualu.ca.gov)
  
• Pennsylvania State Univ.
  (www.worldcampus.psu.edu) Global Campus
  
• University of Phoenix
  (www.uophx.edu)
  
• Vcampus (e-learning host)
  (www.vcampus.com)
  

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GSUs Electronic Landscape

• Correspondence
• A Television Studio and Videotape
• Satellite Downlink
• Satellite Uplink via Teleport
• ITFSInstruction Television Fixed Service
• Cable - to 14 communities
• Compressed Video - South Met Ed Net
• Studio Interactive Classroom
• Lincolnnet ECN (computer networks)

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Oscar Wilde

• There are two kinds of tragedy.
• One is not getting what you want.
• The other is getting."

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Key Words of the Day

• Digital
• Convergence
• Multi-Media
• Videoconferencing
• Telecommunications
• Compression
• Capacity (bandwidth/memory/rates)

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Key Words of the Day

• Digital
• Convergence
• Multi-Media
• Videoconferencing
• Telecommunications
• Compression
• Capacity (bandwidth/memory/rates)

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Key Words of the Day

• Digital
• Convergence
• Multi-Media
• Videoconferencing
• Telecommunications
• Compression
• Capacity (bandwidth/memory/rates)

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Moores Law
1987 Cray-1 Cost 8,000,000 60,000 watts of
power
1997 Nintendo 64 Cost 149
5 watts of power 3.5 x as many ad
ditions/sec.
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Exponential Growth
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50 million local (USA) usersof a
technology

• Radio - 40 years
• TV - 13 years
• WWW - 4 years Times, July, 1998

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National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
Distance Education at Post Secondary
Institutions 1997-98 - December, 1999
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Whats in a number?IHEs offering Distance
Learning Courses
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Whats in a number?Public versus Private
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So you want more numbers?

• Courses doubled to 54,470 of which 49,690 for
  credit
  
• Only 8 of total institutions report offering
  degrees or certificates
  
• Of Distance Learning Institutions, only 25 offer
  degrees or certificates
  

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Growth of U of I Online

• 1997-98 68 online courses, approximately 1300
  course enrollments
  
• 1998-99 more than 150 online courses, estimated
  2800 course enrollments
  
• 1999-00 approx. 300 online courses, estimated
  5500 course enrollments
  
• Our target is to have more than 10,000 course
  enrollments by 2001-02.

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An extraordinary rapid expansion of complex
innovation in technological, pedagogical and
organizational terms.
State of Distance Education in American
Universities A Review of National Surveys
Glenn Shive -- May, 2000
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Most CommonFull DL Degrees at Graduate Level
(NCES)

• Business
• Health Professions
• Education
• Engineering

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SO?

• Distance learning has become a mixed mode, multi-
  media affair

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Enabling Technologies

• Ubiquitous personal computers with Internet
  access
  
• World Wide Web browsers (Mosaic, Netscape,
  Internet Explorer)
  
• Asynchronous conferencing (WebBoard)
• Synchronous chat (AOL I.M.)
• Streaming media (RealPlayer)
• Simulation software, VR, Java

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What can the Internet provide?

• Access to learning opportunities
• Interactive course materials
• Simulations, multimedia, visualization
• Homework and quizzes
• Access to people
• Subject matter experts (faculty, TAs)
• Other students (peer-peer group interactions)

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So what do we call it?

• Distance Education or Distance Learning?
• Distributed Learning?
• The Pedagogy of Tomorrow?
• Teaching Learning!

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Is there something else?

• The On-Line Gold rush

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The Digital MillenniumTechnology
RedefinesLearning

• The way we organize knowledge
• Access to information
• The classroom
• Interaction
• Roles of faculty
• Assessment
• Faculty development
• Compensation Promotion
• Workload

• Credentialing
• Student Services
• Admissions, tuition, payments
• Access to digital libraries, bookstores
• Accreditation
• Time/Place Scheduling

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Wired or Wireless Access
• All students on the home campus have access to
  information and student services anytime from
  any place

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Networking
• All students away from the home campus have
  access through robust networking to the same
  information and student services as those on
  campus

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Faculty Technology Capable
• All faculty can use technology to create content,
  provide interaction, contact all students
  regardless of location, develop thoughtful
  assignments, assess validity, and provide for
  skills to search for information and create
  knowledge

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Course Goals/ Assessment
• Posted electronically, course goals based on
  student performance outcomes and provide frequent
  opportunity by students to measure individual
  progress.

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Partnerships/Collaboration
• Local, National International Alliances
• K-18, community, corporate, public, private, all
  sectors utilizing technology to
  
• enhance access top quality.

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The Highly Regarded Institution of the New
Millennium 6 Characteristics

• Cycles of Technology
• Institutions plan and budget for new technology
• Provide for student/staff development
• Provide incentives for using evaluating new
  applications for teaching learning

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www.odu.edu/nutn
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Its More Than Technology Coming through the door
The Way We Learn is Changing!
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Richard Riley,U.S. Secretary of Education

• Our students may be only 20 of the population,
  but they are 100 of our future"
  

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The Changing Face of Distance Education in
North America

• Dr. Mel MuchniK
• Governors State University
• University Park, Illinois USA

m-muchnik_at_govst.edu
[phone]

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