Report
Web-Based Distance Education: Faculty Recruitment and Training
Oct 1999
Abstract
This paper examines the need for changes in higher education staffing for World Wide Web-based distance education, identifies obstacles to those changes, and proposes strategies for overcoming the obstacles. The first section discusses faculty recruitment, including new possibilities created by Web-based distance technologies and alternative paradigms of distance learning. The second section considers obstacles to recruitment success. The third section addresses faculty training for distance education, and the fourth section covers obstacles to training success. The fifth section presents a faculty development case study: the Instructional Technology Laboratory at George Washington University (District of Columbia). (Contains 16 references.) (MES)
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Details
- Title
- Web-Based Distance Education: Faculty Recruitment and Training
- Creators
- William LynchMichael CorryWilliam Koffenberger
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Identifiers
- 991021893580104721