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"Although campus computing is often touted as aiding education, many professors say the Internet has actually hampered students’ academic performance. When asked whether the Internet has changed the quality of student work, 42 percent of professors in a recent survey said they had seen a decline, while only 22 percent said they had seen improvement. […]

Online learning: Guidelines Towards Positive Group Interaction
By Bonnie Patterson
Introduction:
Much has been written about the advantages of developing guidelines for the development of positive group interactions. Many authors discuss the importance of providing students with guidelines, or better yet, the advantages of allowing adult students to develop their own guidelines for their group interactions (Dixon et […]

“Karen C. Newtzie is trying to be in several places at once. She is teaching in four classrooms simultaneously, sitting in one of them while watching three others on video screens.
‘Anyone else?’ asks Ms. Newtzie, wrapping up a discussion. ‘David, I see you looking up.’
David Gussman, one of her students, is 175 miles away. He […]

The latest edition of the CVC News is now available online. You can access it by clicking on the thumbnail image at the lower left of this page. Or go to http://pdc.cvc.edu/docs/cvcNews0505.pdf
Highlights:CVC Website Award WinnersSummer Training and ConferencesResources - including CVC Transition Contacts for Summer - Fall, 2005ADEC Affy AwardCVC/CCCConfer econference highlightsCVC Consolidation […]

As educators in the online environment, we work to promote the development of virtual learning communities that will engage learners. But, ultimately it is the learners who determine whether a virtual learning community emerges.
In the arena of online multiplayer game design, developers endeavor to design games that will also promote the emergence of a […]

“In this piece we will discuss how anyone with access to high bandwidth can use off-the shelf software (often freeware) and the Internet to host video teleconferences with distant sites. Our experience has been derived from classes extending over a year between Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, and Wenzhou Medical College in China. […]

“Nearly three-fourths of public school districts in the United States plan to offer or expand distance-education programs in the near future, the federal government reported March 2.
According to the first federal study of the issue, titled ‘Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary School Students,’ the popularity of distance education has spread from colleges […]

The protection of the rights of the author of works that are shared with the public has, for a long time, been ensured by law. As a consequence, we have copyrights and patents, fair use, and - most recently - the Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization (TEACH) Act. The protection of a person’s intellectual property […]

“The popularity of distance education has spread from colleges to earlier grades, as students in more than one-third of U.S. school districts take courses over the Internet or through video conferences, according to the first federal study of the issue.
From social studies and math to English and computer science, thousands of basic courses are being […]

“Consider the following scenario. The Association of Technology Enthusiasts decides that it can save a tremendous amount of time and expense-for itself and its membership-by eliminating its annual conference. Since its members come to the annual conferences for the thought-provoking presentations on applying technology to anything and everything, why disrupt members’ day-to-day routines by having […]