Distance Learning Retreat
Going the Distance for Education
Synthesizing the Research to Inform Practice: What's New and How Can It Improve Teaching and Learning?
Marie Lacara, Canisius CollegeBest practices in distance education are not new and recently more research has identified what constitutes high quality in distance education. In synthesizing the latest literature, there are decisions at the institutional level, program level, and instructor level that will affect faculty success and growth, and thus influence student success. In short, there is an opportunity to utilize distance education as an agent of positive change in higher education. Participants will actively work with the literature to develop, in small groups, best practices and quality assurances which they will then share in whole group format; the goal is to identify elements at each level which will forward the institutional mission and improve distance education.
Useful Documents
- Presentation Slide Show
- Literature Circle
- Disrupting College
- Quality on the Line
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of Distance Education