Serving Rural Communities with Distance Education Degree Programs

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca L. Stotzer
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Education Degree

Extending Educational Opportunities in Rural Areas

2010 ◽  
pp. 276-294
Author(s):  
Wallace Hannum ◽  
Matthew Irvin ◽  
Claire de la Varre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Qualified Teachers ◽  
Declining Populations

Rural schools in many countries face problems in providing educational opportunities to children and youth for a variety of reasons. There has been the tendency in many countries to migrate to urban areas, often in search of better economic opportunities. The resulting shift from rural areas to urban/suburban areas has placed increased pressures on schools in rural communities. Schools often form the hub of social and civic activity in rural communities. Although they are an important component to rural communities, many rural schools are struggling under the weight of declining populations, declining budgets, staffing difficulties, and increased pressures to better prepare students for the workforce or further education. Rural schools face particular difficulties in attracting and retaining qualified teachers. Faced with problems of providing a comprehensive curriculum and qualified teachers, many rural schools in the United States have turned to distance education. This case explores the use of distance education in the United States through a national survey of distance education use, analysis of barriers to distance education and an experimental study of enhancing distance education through more appropriate training of local facilitators to support students.

scholarly journals The University of Texas System TeleCampus: A statewide model for collaboration

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Darcy W. Hardy ◽  
Robert L. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Online Programs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The University ◽  
Barriers To Collaboration

The University of Texas (UT) System has been meeting educational needs of students for over 150 years. In 1997, the UT System initiated the development of the UT TeleCampus, a centralized facilitation point for distance learning. The TeleCampus opened its virtual doors in May 1998, focused entirely on support services for students. By late 1998, the TeleCampus had begun developing what would become collaborative benchmark online programs for the UT System. As a result of having developed over 12 complete online degree programs since that time, many lessons have been learned about (1) barriers to collaboration and how to overcome them; (2) faculty development and interaction; and (3) the commitment required to build successful online programs. This article describes the UT TeleCampus initiative and how it has grown from a services-only organization to a nationally recognized model for delivering high quality distance education.

Use of Distance Education and Audiographic Technology in Preparing Practicing Teachers in Rural Communities

1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Knapczk
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Staff Development ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Rural School ◽  
School Corporations ◽  
Practicing Teachers ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Training Institutions

Improving the skills of school personnel already teaching in rural communities will require that universities and other training agencies develop new approaches for structuring and delivering training experiences. The success of such activities will depend upon the ability of training institutions and school corporations to establish partnerships in carrying out staff development and devising models of training. Distance education and audiographic technology can give agencies flexibility in organizing and offering a wide range of training experiences adapted to the needs of rural school corporations.

Re-Enacted Affiliative Meanings and "Branding" in Open and Distance Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 1552-1556
Author(s):  
Gary McI. Boyd ◽  
Dai Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Courses ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Education Degree

Entwistle (1981) found it was possible and useful to categorize students in three categories: surface learners who want to acquire and use specific knowledge and skills, deep learners who seek a deeper coherent understanding of a field, and credential seekers who want a good diploma and will do whatever may be necessary to get it. The surface learners do not need formal distance education degree studies; they can more and more readily find just-in-time just-on-topic e-learning for a modest price. So the main clientele for distance education institutions are and will continue to be both those wanting a really deep meaningful education, and those who need really respectable credentials who also lack convenient affordable access to traditional universities. More and more it is becoming incumbent upon us to cater to the credential seekers and help to socialize them into their chosen fields, if possible converting them into people proud to be deep learners. Such socialization is not possible if all one provides is a cafeteria of online courses.

A brief history of distance education in Chemistry at McGill University in Canada

2019 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian S. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mcgill University

AbstractDistance education began as correspondence courses in the 1700s, chiefly to connect rural communities with secondary and post-secondary educational institutions located in major cities. Since then, owing to the overwhelming improvements in communication technologies over the past two centuries, distance education is now well-established and is a major educational approach employed throughout the world. This paper will include a brief overview of the history of distance education in general and a description of some of the author’s personal experiences with respect to distance teaching of university-level Chemistry courses since he began his academic career as a professor over 50 years ago.

The Impact Of The Current Economic Crisis On The Demand For Higher Education: An Analysis Of Spanish Distance Education Universities

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Dolores Reina-Paz ◽  
Ainhoa Rodriguez-Oromendia ◽  
Claudia Sevilla-Sevilla
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
University System ◽  
Current Economic Crisis ◽  
Student Demand ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

Spain is currently experiencing a difficult economic situation, and in recent years a significant change has been observed in the behavior of the demand for educational programs as a result of this situation. Recent studies reveal a change in student demand that does not have the same effect on all academic institutions. Bearing this behavior in mind, the present study focuses on providing an overview of the situation of the Spanish distance education university system over a six-year period, from the 2007/08 to the 2011/12 academic year, analyzing the different variables that influence the demand and new enrollment in official degree programs. We also conduct a comparative analysis of the patterns these variables follow depending on the methodology applied by the different universities examined in our study, making a distinction between classroom and distance education universities.

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