UPFRONT: WELCOME to three new DESIEN-List members: Kay Taube, Program Development Specialist, Continuing Education Extension; Michele Jacques, Project Coordinator Distance Education Clearinghouse/WWW, Instructional Communications Systems and Debbie Cardinal, Wisconsin InterLibrary Services, Memorial Library.

PARDON OUR MISTAKE: Chris Olgren's correct title is Program Manager of the Distance Education Certificate Program, as you'll note in our NETNEWS article, not Director. Chere Gibson is Executive Director.
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DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS:
"DISTANCE EDUCATION ISSUES AND CONCERNS"
(Expressed in the 1994 Symposium Report)

In the 1994 Symposium Report, participants noted 13 major areas of concern:

1. Technology availability, dependability, installation time and capacity
2. Distance education costs/affordability
3. Staff cutbacks
4. Pedagogy and faculty attitudes
5. K-12 needs and issues
6. Lack of support and restricted resources
7. Absence of market research
8. Uneven readiness of students for distance education
9. Faculty and staff training
10. Duplication of efforts
11. Turf problems,lack of coordination or system planning, out-of-state
competition
12. Results of the "Access to Quality Initiative"
13. Administrative hassles: workload issues, faculty incentives,funding,
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Have you seen progress on your campus and at the System level since you filled out the Report? In what areas has there been little or no progress? What comments, questions, recommendations do you have?


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NETNEWS
Michele Jacques

Distance Education Clearinghouse on the web at:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html
or gopher to the server: gopher.uwex.edu for text-only version of the Clearinghouse

New information and links to additional resources are added on a daily basis to the University of Wisconsin-Extension's Distance Education Clearinghouse.

Our newest section is the official information for the 12th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning which will be held in Madison on August 7-9, 1996. Chris Olgren, Program Manager, has designed the original pages. The conference information will be updated as it becomes available. You can find the link to the Conference information on the Clearinghouse's homepage.

The information for the Quality Distance Education (QDE): Lessons Learned program has also been updated. You will now find new information about QDE, as well as a section which provides dozens of links to Distance Education programs from around the world. These programs all focus on the experience of creating quality distance education efforts.

Compressed Video is another newly enhanced section of the Clearinghouse. In fact, in line with the recent special focus area of DESIEN, please check out this section at:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/compvid.html or on the gopher, select "Interactive Delivery Systems" from the main menu. In the Compressed Video section, you will find glossaries, definitions, articles and other sources on Compressed Video, both from Wisconsin and beyond. Of interest to Wisconsin users is the new document: Publicly Accessible Wisconsin Compressed Video Conference Facilities. This document was updated on November 3 and identifies the 28 locations of the Compressed Video sites, including such information as the room number and maximum group size requirements, hours of availability, parking information and other details. The sites information can be found directly at the web address:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/compvidsites.html

It is one of the goals of the Distance Education Clearinghouse to be a useful and vital resource for the distance education needs, a place where you can find answers to questions, links to other distance education sites, programs, organizations and courses. There is an alphabetical and outlined index to help you find your way around the web version; there are search functions on the
gopher for the same reason. In the weeks ahead we'll be adding the archives of the DESIEN-List to the Clearinghouse, along with many other features. Please be sure to send your comments, suggestions, and questions about the Clearinghouse to me. I can be reached at: jacques@ics.uwex.edu or by phone at (608) 265-6178. Thanks.

Michele Jacques
Project Coordinator, WWW
Distance Education Clearinghouse
Instructional Communications Systems
University of Wisconsin-Extension

FYI

IT'S HAPPENING!: "Quality Distance Education (QDE): Lessons Learned" is happening! Is your campus involved? If you don't know and want to find out and become involved call: Cooperative Extension, University of Wisconsin-Extension (608) 262-9940.

MID-DECEMBER DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS: "Continuing Discussion of Issues and Concerns" (Expressed in the 1994 Symposium Report.)
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DESIEN has been created to encourage information exchange and discussion of distance education issues concerned with: 1) Symposium team progress and institution course/program development, 2) faculty/team development, 3) technology, 4) policy 5) funding and 6) research among participants, presenters and organizers of the 1994 UW-Extension/UW System Distance Education Symposium. Other List members are also welcome to join in the discussion.


Each monthly issue will focus on an "area of interest", contain an FYI section and list future areas of focus. Your continuous input through updates, features, questions and dialogue will be instrumental in helping DESIEN evolve and grow.

DESIEN is a one-year pilot project, September, 1995 to September, 1996 and will be evaluated at the end of that time. The coordinators of DESIEN areRosemary Lehman and Pat Takemoto. The owner of DESIEN is Rosemary Lehman, lehman@ics.uwex.edu. Please contact Rosemary if you have concerns or problems.

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