• Jan. 04 - DE announcements
  
• Jan. 04 - UW-River Falls Update
  
• Jan. 23 - American History 102 now has a homepage
  
• Jan. 25 - A short history of the Open University
  
• Jan. 26 - UW Green Bay Update

 

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:02:00 -0600 Reply-to: CHOLGREN@macc.wisc.edu From: Christine Olgren [CHOLGREN@macc.wisc.edu] To: Multiple recipients of list [desien-list@uwex.edu] Subject: DE announcements TO: Desien listserv FROM: Chris Olgren, UW-Madison, cholgren@macc.wisc.edu, 608-262-8530 Because of your involvement in distance education, here are two announcements I'd like to share with you: 1. Call for sessions for the 1996 distance conference in Madison 2. A half-time Editor's position working with the Distance Education Certificate Program and conference ***************** CALL FOR CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND EXHIBITS 12th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning August 7-9, 1996 Madison, Wisconsin Theme: Designing for Active Learning Session proposals are due March 1, 1996 The Conference Planning Committee of the 12th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning invites you to contribute to the professional knowledge provided at this event by presenting a session that relates to the conference theme. We also invite exhibits and demonstrations of distance education resources, courseware and technology. Plan to join nearly 900 colleagues from around the world at this leading forum on distance education and training. Practitioners, managers and researchers from education, business and industry, and government agencies will come together to exchange information and explore new developments at this 12th Annual Conference. To receive a brochure that describes how to prepare and submit a proposal, please call Nancy Kolberg, conference manager, at 608-265-4159. The brochure is also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html ****************** POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: EDITOR/COORDINATOR The UW-Madison Department of Continuing and Vocational Education seeks a half-time individual with excellent writing, editing and coordinating skills to support distance education outreach programs. This is a 50% academic staff position responsible for program promotion and information activities. Duties: Plan, write and coordinate promotional efforts using direct mail marketing, news and Internet/Web services; plan, write and publish a quarterly newsletter for distance learners; edit self-study guides and instructional materials. With appropriate experience person may move into program development and/or learner support services using print, tape, audio, Internet and World Wide Web formats. Qualifications: Master's degree in related field; two to five years experience in planning, writing and coordinating promotional or instructional materials. Experience in using IBM PC for desktop publishing, Internet and Web desirable. Distance education experience a plus. Salary $28-33K annual fulltime. Application deadline January 19, 1996 (PVL#24953). Send letter of application and resume to: Distance Education Outreach Attn: C. Olgren 225 N. Mills Street, Room 112 Madison, WI 53706 Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding the applicants must be released upon request. Finalists cannot be guaranteed confidentiality. UW-Madison is an equal opportunity employer.

 

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 17:22:51 -0600 Reply-to: LEHMAN@ics.uwex.edu From: "Rosemary Lehman" [LEHMAN@ics.uwex.edu] To: Multiple recipients of list [desien-list@uwex.edu] Subject: Re: UW-River Falls Update On January 4, Barbara Audley wrote: Just an update on the UW-River Falls campus update included in the subject issue. UW-RF is a member of WestWING, not NWECS, and has frequently connected compressed video into our classroom using existing network facilities, sometimes via WestWING, other times via WONDER. It does work very nicely. We have even done this input using the quad-split capability of the networks, where the compressed site is one of the 4 quads and we therefore have continuous audio across all the sites.

 

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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 16:04:21 -0600
Reply-to: tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu
From: tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu (William P. Tishler)
To: Multiple recipients of list [desien-list@uwex.edu]
Subject: American History 102 now has a homepage

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Spring 1996

American History 102: Civil War to the Present
with Prof. Schultz
(Class size 400 students)

American History 102 now has a homepage on the World Wide Web. From the homepage, users can link to outlines and summaries of each lecture in the course, as well as to a variety of other sites that contain useful and important reference materials relative to course content. Through the homepage, users can send questions, comments, and suggestions to the instructor and/or to individual teaching assistants. To find it type-
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/hist102/

or go to any Web Search engines (yahoo or InfoSeek) and type AMERICAN HISTORY 102

The Video lectures are broadcast on WHA, The Learning Channel, Cable 15 (Fitchburg Cable 4) 7:30-8:30 AM on Monday and Wednesday. Rebroadcast on WHA, VCR Semester, Madison (Cable Channel 11), elsewhere Channel 21 / Cable 11 4:00-6:00 AM.

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William P. Tishler ........................ tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu
Broadcast Specialist ................... office (608) 233-2174
University of Wisconsin .......................... dept. (608) 262-4472
Madison, WI 53706 ................................ fax (608) 262-7579
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 15:57:27 -0600
Reply-to: tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu
From: tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu (William P. Tishler)
To: Multiple recipients of list [desien-list@uwex.edu]
Subject: A short history of the Open University

A short history of the Open University

The Open University was brought into existence by the grant of its Royal Charter in April 1969, but its origins go back much further than that.

Speculation about the use of radio for university-level education began as early as the 1920s, and the advent of television provided further impetus to such ideas, but none were realized. It was not until the early 1960s that firm proposals began to be developed. By then other countries, notably Canada, Australia, the USA and the Soviet Union were already engaged in
distance teaching of various kinds.

In 1962 Michael Young (now Lord Young of Dartington), in an article in Where magazine, proposed `an open university' to prepare people for the external degrees of London University. His own energies, however, went into the foundation of the National Extension College, and it was Harold Wilson (now Lord Wilson, then leader of the Opposition) who in a speech at
Glasgow in 1963 launched the idea of a "University of the Air". Originally he saw this as a consortium of existing universities using broadcasting and correspondence tuition to bring their teaching to adult students in their own homes.

An independent university

At that time the idea attracted very little interest. It was never official Labour Party policy and remained very much Mr. Wilson's personal project. After he became Prime Minister in 1964 he asked his Minister for the Arts, Jennie Lee (later Baroness Lee of Ashridge), to take responsibility for it.

Under Jennie Lee's leadership the concept emerged of an autonomous, independent university equal to any other. She overcame the skepticism and even hostility of the educational establishment by "outsnobbing the snobs", as she put it herself: she brought together a Planning Committee which included five vice-chancellors, the principal of a polytechnic, and the leaders of two education authorities. Their recommendations eventually won the support of Jennie Lee's colleagues in the Cabinet, and the Open University at last became a reality.

In the early years the main priority was the creation of a viable undergraduate programme. The first 24,000 students were admitted in 1971. By the mid-70s there were more than 50,000 undergraduates and a wide range of courses for them to study.

Despite this rapid expansion the University was already planning its next step: a programme of wide-ranging "continuing education" covering professional and scientific updating, social and community matters, and personal interest topics. Sir Peter Venables, who had chaired the original Planning Committee, returned to lead another committee which established the principles on which the resulting programmes of study have been based. During the 1980s this side of the University's work overtook the degree programme in student/client numbers.

In the 1990s the University has become truly international. Its courses are now available to all residents of the European Union countries. There are also collaborative schemes in many of the emerging democracies of Eastern Europe, with more than 2,000 people following OU courses in the Russian Republic alone. In the Far East, Open University courses are offered through partner institutions in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Today there are more than 200,000 men and women studying with the Open University worldwide.

Source: http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Intro/History.html

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William P. Tishler ........................ tishler@facstaff.wisc.edu
Broadcast Specialist ................... office (608) 233-2174
University of Wisconsin .......................... dept. (608) 262-4472
Madison, WI 53706 ................................ fax (608) 262-7579
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 09:12:54 -0600
Reply-to: LEHMAN@ics.uwex.edu
From: "Rosemary Lehman" [LEHMAN@ics.uwex.edu]
To: Multiple recipients of list [desien-list@uwex.edu]
Subject: Re: UW Green Bay Update

On January 25, Bob Skorczewski, Assoc. Director Office of Outreach & Extension of UW-Green Bay wrote:

UW-GREEN BAY - Through cooperative arrangements with UWGB and UWSP, the Graduate School of Business Administration at UWO offers the Masters of Business Administration at all three campuses. The program is structured primarily for students who work full-time and plan to attend classes on a part-time basis.

Started in the summer of 95, the MBA program incorporated the use of compressed video. This technology has enhanced the student's learning experience in several ways. First, compressed video has increased the periodicity of course offerings. Instead of a required course being offered every third semester at a specific site, this course may now be offered every other semester. Second, the use of compressed video has increased the number of electives offered. A course that might have enrollments deemed too small, can in fact reach acceptable numbers via this technology. Both of the factors enhance the student's total learning
experience at all three campuses.