2003 LEARNING STANDARDS REPORT - The Masie Center's e-Learning
Consortium recently released a free report on the current state of Learning Standards:
'Making Sense of Learning Specifications & Standards: A Decision Maker's Guide to
their Adoption' - 2nd Edition. You can download or read this 82 page report (in PDF
format) at: http://www.masie.com/standards/

BEST BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT DISTANCE LEARNING
UNDERGRADUATE SCHOOLS - Find information about GetEducated.coms
Best Distance Learning Undergraduate Schools: Business & Management 2004.
This free college guidebook profiles more than 100 accredited online colleges in the
USA and is available in PDF (ebook) format.
Online baccalaureate degrees (BA/BS)
Online associate degrees (AS/AA)
Online career certificates
The book profiles only schools accredited by an agency recognized by the Council
on Higher Education Accreditation. http://www.geteducated.com/bdlus_bm.htm
(GetEducated, 12 Nov 03)

F-LIGHT - This month's issue features:
- An article from UMass Lowell about how they used evaluation data both to
validate the quality of their online program and also to make further improvements
- A new addition to F-Light's collection of research ideas for dissertations, grant
proposals, and a study of the kinds of virtual programs that are most likely to
engage students in a way that leads to substantial future support from them as alumni
- an announcement of an online Flashlight workshop, starting later this week, on
using data to get more educational value from technology. This workshop will focus
on evaluating uses of technology to reinforce the seven principles of good practice
(faculty-student contact, student-student interaction, active learning, time on task,
etc.) For the full features go to:
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/f-light/2003/nov.html (F-LIGHT, Nov 03)

AFT ON CAMPUS - The American Federation of Teachers publication is
running a series of articles on distance education trends. In "Trends in Distance
Education," Sept 03.
http://www.aft.org/publications/on_campus/sept03/technology.html)
Thomas J. Kriger, State University of New York, writes about how "critics of
asynchronous courses and programs within higher education have recently found
unexpected support in the corporate sector." Learners in corporations are
increasingly expressing dissatisfaction with online-only classes. This is leading
to the creation of "blended learning" - courses that combine "face-to-face
teaching with software and Web-based teaching." Such courses also allow
faculty to retain greater control in their distance classes. (CIT INFOBITS,
Nov 03)