Share by Jennifer C. Berkshire When it was time for Eastern Connecticut State student Jonathan Marsh* to evaluate his math teacher last fall, he had no problem identifying what was wrong with her. She gave too many quizzes, concluded Marsh, and a thick accent made her lectures difficult to understand. In the past, Marsh’s comments [...]
Share by P.D. Lesko with reporting by Diane Calabrese The new E-book readers are proving tough to sell, and E-books are proving even tougher to produce. In 2000, leading E-book reader production company Gemstar-TV Guide International sold only 60,000 units, each priced between $300 and $700 dollars. Susan Kevorkian, a publishing industry analyst, pre- dicts [...]
Share by P.D. Lesko IN THIS ISSUE, readers will note several editorial changes. First among those changes is the addition of two new columns: “the commuter” and “technically speaking.” The first column grew out of an idea that I had after reading about the income tax credits available to owners of electric-powered vehicles. Why not, [...]
Share by Christopher Cumo PERHAPS THE 21st century will be the era of the virtual classroom. In 1998, 1.6 million of America’s 14.5 million college and university students took at least one course on-line, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics. Between 1995 and 1998 the number of distance-education programs increased 72 percent, and [...]
Share by Vicki Urquhart LORE WEB USERS ARE busy people. On the Internet, they seek out sites that are functional, display high-quality graphics, contain credible information, and are well written. Certainly, the Web design team at Bedford/St. Martin’s, a college textbook publisher specializing in the humanities, set out to create LORE, their e-journal for teachers [...]
Share by Vicki Urquhart The Tribal College Journal ofAmerican Indian Higher Education 4 issues per year Institutional subscription: $30 per year; Individual subscription: $22 per year 1 P.O. Box 720, Mancos, CO 80328 WHEN YOU PICK up a professional journal, you expect it to be worth your time, and Tribal College Journal of American Indian [...]
Share by P.D. Lesko THE 1990 CENSUS estimated that 3.90 percent of American workers over the age of 16 walked to work. A decade later, the 2000 United States Census estimates that only 2.68 percent of American workers over the age of 16 walk to work. In the last decade, slightly more than a million [...]
Share by Christine Hult IT’S THE END of an arduous semester and your desk is piled high with student papers. You sigh deeply as you contemplate the days of reading and grading that lie ahead of you. Surely there must be a better way? You’ll be happy to learn that recently developed technologies can help you to handle the paper load. [...]
Share by Evelyn Beck CAROL CONRAD HAS continued to teach on-line business courses for two California colleges despite moving first to Virginia and then to Florida. “If the student can be anywhere, why not the instructor?” she says. As distance education offers greater flexibility for students, so it has also meant more options for adjunct [...]
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