Congratulations to the 2007 Awardees:
Karen Cox
1st place ENGL: 40 Advanced Composition
City College of San Francisco
Lisa Harrison Psy D
2nd place Lifespan Development Course
City College of San Francisco
And thank you to all the applicants:
K.D. Borcoman, Coastline Community College, Philosophy 113: Visions of Earth
Carolyn Brown, Foothill College, Graphic Design Studio 2
Susan Carrier, Mt. San Jacinto College, CAPP125C-2 Excel […]
The California Virtual Campus began a program five years ago to recognize exceptional websites used in teaching online courses at California’s community colleges. We wanted to acknowledge the work that faculty have done to create these sites, often with support from their colleges’ technical staff. We also wanted to encourage others to pursue the same […]
As many or most of you already know, the California Virtual Campus began a program four years ago to recognize exceptional websites used in teaching online courses at California’s community colleges. We wanted to acknowledge the work that faculty have done to create these sites, often with support from their colleges’ technical staff. We also […]
Five Winners of the Best Online Teaching Website Announced!
All winners are listed in alphabetic order. Please also note the Five Additional Sites Honored for Excellence as they embody qualities that support excellence in online instruction. Courses are listed with login and contact information for each site.
Where websites are still current, login and […]
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Barkley, the winner of the CVC Online Teaching Website Award for 2001! The award and a $2,500 prize will be presented at an October 15 luncheon that’s part of the CVC Online Learning in Higher Education conference at the Waterfront Hilton in Huntington Beach.
Elizabeth Barkley chairs the Music Department at Foothill […]
The California Virtual Campus presented Dennis O’Neil, PhD, of Palomar College the Best Online Teaching Website for academic year 2000 - 2001. Along with the award pictured, he was also presented with a check for $2,500. The award was sponsored by Pearson Education, whose publishing imprints include Addison Wesley Longman, Allyn & Bacon and Prentice […]
One of the many advantages
often expressed about online teaching and learning is, that gender online is
invisible and therefore makes this educational delivery medium egalitarian.
But is it really? Studies have shown that distinct male and female behaviors
often surface, which cues us in to gender online: these behaviors maybe […]
SCO Group, which owns the Unix operating system, is suing IBM Corp. for allegedly trying to tank the value of Unix on the open market by illegally embedding strands of the operating system’s code into its open-source Linux platform. Though IBM denies the allegations, the billion-dollar lawsuit threatens to derail the open-source movement just as it has begun to catch on in schools.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryalert.cfm?ArticleID=4410
The purpose of this article is to present findings of a focus group study used to design a survey instrument for applications in future studies to determine factors of influence that inspire senior faculty members to participate in course delivery through online learning environments (OLE). Much of the general research that is available, identifies concerns such as monetary compensation, and concerns for technological savvy, however these concerns are not true for all faculty members. The differing motivational factors (as they have emerged in the literature) have shown to be related to faculty appointment levels and years of service, which seem to play an important role in identifying how administrators can encourage these seasoned instructors to participate in the online learning environments.
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring61/giannoni61.htm
Recently, I set out to find an answer to the question of what current research was saying about how, if at all, the Web impacted student learning. My recently released monograph, Quality in Distance Education: Focus on Online Learning, is a compilation of more than 100 studies drawn from several online journals, conference Web sites, as well as some interesting sites maintained by associations and institutions. One of the unintended lessons learned from this project was discovering how easy it is to locate good research on the Web and how many studies there actually are.