CONTENTS
Welcome - to new recipients
Upfront - comments on the University of Maryland on-line workshop
Focus - Collaborative Nursing Degree Program
Campus Update - insert new information
NII Copyright Update - Coming soon!
DE Clearinghouse - satellite information on the WWW
FYI - reminders
May DESIEN Focus - UW K-12 VITAL Initiative
Endnote: new technologies/new literacies
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WELCOME: to new DESIEN-List recipients Don Tracia and Jenny Jolinski. Don is working for the Education Network of Maine as a CMC Specialist, designing and delivering asynchronous courses using the WWW. Jenny is with The Open University in Orlando, Florida, an institution that focuses on entrepreneurial education and intends to move its educational process onto the Internet.

And a word from other recent additions: Bill Lyon is a TV Producer-Director at SUNY Cortland, until May 1, when he will begin his doctorate; Steve Sharples is with UKCOSA: The Council for International Education. This is the UK's National Authority, concerned with all aspects of international student mobility, including how mobility might change as a result of distance education.

Sue Shelton is a registrar at UW-Eau Claire, involved with the WONDER Network, the Distance Education (DE) Guidelines Committee, and the DE Council. Her office handles all DE scheduling. Marie Jost is the DE Consultant for the State Health Director's Office, Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources in North Carolina. She is involved with the state's two-way video/data Public Health Training and Information Network (PHTIN).

We look forward to your lurking and participating in this monthly interactive newsletter.

UPFRONT: A number of us at ICS are involved this month with a University of Maryland on-line workshop that is intended to give us some insight into how to help faculty adapt classroom programs and courses to the WWW. Although we've worked with audio, audiographics, satellite and compressed video formats and strategies, the WWW is something new in the area of instructional design.

It has truly been a challenge to try to keep up with the ongoing dialogue that follows the periodic presentations. While the Moderator does an excellent job of nicely organizing the dialogue according to topics, the amount of on-line material we receive daily is really staggering.

Much discussion has centered around how participants are reading and analyzing the information. A few are doing it on screen - reading, editing, and filing away, what is important for them, directly on their computers. Others are printing out - reading at a more convenient time (early morning or late in the evening), and highlighting for future organization. Which would you choose? I've opted for printing and highlighting (though I hate to use the paper) because I find reading from the screen not only more tedious, but it cuts into so much of my day.

Some interesting questions are beginning to surface as instructors provide examples of their on-line teaching and their students' learning. Among them:

. what strategies are best taught on the WWW?
. what is the best process for students to use for determining the validity and reliability of Net resource material?
. Is it important for students to have a sense of formatting and design before they begin to design Web Pages?
. Is it ethical for students to contact experts (whose addresses are available on-line) for answers to frivolous questions?
. Should the on-line work of others be used without first requesting permission?

There are no easy answers to some of these questions, since the technology and methods are so new. So we're drawing from our experiences with other technologies and discovering where things fit and where they don't.

Instructional designers, faculty, all members of a distance education design team should go through this process with each of the technologies. We're finding that there is enormous value in "standing in the shoes and sitting in the seat of the learner" before we try to work with faculty in challenging new areas. (Rosemary Lehman)
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FOCUS

"The Collaborative Nursing Degree Program: a
Progress Report"
by
Pat Lasky, Ph.D. and Sharon Nellis, MPA

During his State of the State address on January 30th, Governor Tommy Thompson noted that over 9,000 nurses will have the opportunity to complete a baccalaureate degree in nursing without ever setting foot on a campus. The success of the collaborative program between the five University of Wisconsin campuses at Eau Claire, Green Bay, Oshkosh, Madison, and Milwaukee has even gained the attention of the governor.

The initial pilot phase has indeed signaled great potential for the nurses of the State of Wisconsin to continue their formal education.

The two first-level courses were offered for the first time this Spring semester through distance education technology. Health Assessment is being taught from the Madison campus by Professor Pamela Scheibel. Theoretical Foundations is being taught from the Eau Claire campus by Professor Sandra Dirks.

Health Assessment is using a combination of compressed video and audiographics as two mediums of distance education technology to teach over 45 students distributed over 10 sites throughout the state. Students are attending class from as far north as Ashland, to the south in Janesville, west to New Richmond and east to Menasha.

Theoretical Foundations is being presented entirely using audiographics technology. There are close to 60 students enrolled in this course. This course is distributed as well to 10 individual classrooms across the state. Wausau Hospital and New Richmond Hospital are two examples of institutions working in partnership with the five schools of Nursing to accomplish this feat.

The initiation of the program, since the September 1995 decision to forge ahead with it, was accomplished through the extraordinary cooperation of diverse groups such as the staff of the Northern Area Health Education Center (AHEC), Marcia Baird and her staff from Instructional Communications Systems (ICS), staff from UW-Extension, numerous staff from a number of center system campuses, and of course the exhaustive work of the student advisors and
administrative staff of the five Schools of Nursing.

It is heartening to note that a phone call, literally from nowhere, to the Director of the Life Long Learning Center at Northland College in Ashland resulted in a response "sure we can help." The program is truly a statewide collaboration effort for the benefit of nurses and the ultimate increased quality of health care for our state. Initial responses from participants have been very positive.

These courses will be offered again in the fall semester of 1996, along with additional advanced nursing courses which are part of the shared curriculum. Core nursing courses will be offered frequently to ensure that students have multiple options for course and program completion.

The Higher Education Location Program (HELP) is available to provide information about the Nursing Collaborative Program to prospective students (800-442-6459). Interested students who want to enroll in the Spring semester course offerings have until December 1, 1996 to contact their desired "home" institution.

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CAMPUS UPDATE

(Please inset new information about your institution's distance education progress below. A compilation of information sent in during the last three months will appear in the May issue.)

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FROM THE DISTANCE EDUCATION CLEARINGHOUSE
NETNEWS
Michele Jacques

Distance Education Clearinghouse
on the web at:
http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html

There is a lot of information on the world wide web about satellite technologies, applications and programs.

For example, if you are looking for sources of programming, many satellite providers maintain their own homepages. These providers will supply information about their area of specialty, the programs they offer, costs, etc. Or use one of the searchable databases of satellite programs. These databases collect information on satellite programs on a variety of topics. They can be used to locate specific program information, names of people to contact, availability of free programs, etc.

If you are new to the idea of satellite videoconferencing, several glossaries and guides have been developed by various organizations and individuals. Satellite 101 is a website created by the Hughes Space and Communications Company, and even though it says it's for young people, novices of any age can benefit from the clear explanations of the basic satellite information which is presented. You can find it at http://www.hughespace.com/sat101.html

The Distance Education Clearinghouse has recently updated its section on Satellite Videoconferencing. There is information on staying current, articles, and even a link to a view from space. The section begins at:http://www.uwex.edu/disted/satweb.htm
Links to information on providers, programs and the other areas mentioned above can be found within these pages.

Please send me any comments, suggestions, and questions about the Distance Education Clearinghouse. I can be reached at: jacques@ics.uwex.edu or by phone at (608)265-6178. Thank you.

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

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NII COPYRIGHT DEVELOPMENTS

by

Kenneth Salomon
Dow, Lohnes & Albertson
Washington, D.C.

COMING SOON! This very relevant article will be sent out next week as a separate addendum to today's issue.

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FYI

REMINDERS:

FREE SATELLITE VIDEOCONFERENCE - "Quality and Assessment in Distance Education" is scheduled for May 2, 1996 from 12:30-2:00 p.m. CDT. This videoconference will focus on how to define quality and how to measure it in distance education. The three outstanding panelists will be: Stephen Ehrmann, Annenberg/CPB Projects; Alexander Gonzales, California State University, - Fresno; and Sally Johnstone, Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications. Contact - Shirlene Major 209-278-2058.

ITCA '96 CONFERENCE - Scheduled for May 21-24, 1996, Washington, DC, this International Teleconferencing Association conference will focus on practical applications of video/audio conferencing, data collaboration, and other interactive multimedia technologies with an all-new format. Contact - ITCA, 703-506-3266.

INTERNATIONAL WORLD CONFERENCE - The 18th ICDE World Conference is scheduled for June 2-6, 1996 and will be hosted by the Pennsylvania State University. The conference theme is "The New Learning Environment: A Global Perspective." Contact - Gary Miller, The Pennsylvania State University, 211 Mitchell Bldg., University Park, PA 16802.

20-WEEK CERTIFICATE COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT - "Problems and Principles in the Use of the Internet for Course Delivery," October, 1996 until April 1997, taught by Dr. Roger H. Flavell of the University of London will treat three broad themes - the role of computer-mediated communication in education and training, the effectiveness of on-line education and collaborative learning, and an introduction to on-line services. Contact - Dr. Flavell at: phone: 0171 612 6525 or fax: 0171 612 6534. Deadline for applications is May 31, 1996.

MAINE CONFERENCE - The University of Maine at Augusta, will hold its 10th Annual Conference Sept. 26, 27, and 28, 1996. The Conference theme is,"Yesterday's Dreams Are Today's Reality: Quality and Access in Distance Education and Training." Contact - 207-621-3170.

12th ANNUAL CONFERENCE - The Madison, Wisconsin Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning will be held August 7-9, 1996. The conference theme is "Designing for Learning." Contact - Nancy Kolberg, 608-264-9689.

TELELEARNING '96 - "Distance Education - the New Focus" is scheduled for October 2-5, 1996, Chicago, Illinois. Contact - 1-800-988-4555.

TELECON XVI - Call for Papers for the annual teleconferencing user's conference, "Connecting to the Desktop," October 29-31, 1996, Anaheim, California. Contact - 1-800-829-3400.

WETC - Well over 100 proposals have been received for the Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference, October 8-10, 1996, Green Bay, Wisconsin. The purpose of the conference is to advance the application of technology at all levels of education and training (pre-kindergarten through adult) in instruction, curriculum, learning resources, special needs, administration, and planning. Contact - Sandra Carman, 608-266-0001.
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MAY DESIEN ISSUE FOCUS: "Virtual Institute for Technology, Teaching, and Learning (VITAL): a Wisconsin K-12 Professional Development Initiative." by Professor Sally Standiford, UW-River Falls and Rosemary Lehman, ICS.

ENDNOTE: As we all continue to work with existing and new technologies, it is becoming more and more apparent that their effective application and use involve new ways of perceiving, designing, teaching, reading, and organizing. The research literature is beginning to explore these areas in more depth. What are your experiences, thoughts, and comments?

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DESIEN ARCHIVE: An Archive has been created for past issues and interaction comments. Locate at: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/desien.html

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 recipients are also welcome to join in for information contributions and discussion.

Each monthly issue will focus on an "area of interest", feature a regular column on the Distance Education Clearinghouse by Michele Jacques, 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 are Rosemary Lehman and Pat Takemoto. The owner of DESIEN is Rosemary Lehman, lehman@ics.uwex.edu. Please contact Rosemary if you have concerns or problems.