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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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A Blended Faculty Community of Inquiry: Linking Leadership, Course Redesign, and Evaluation
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Vaughan, Norman; Garrison, Randy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2006
This article describes an institutional course redesign initiative in terms of leadership, support, and preliminary findings, based on the Inquiry Through Blended Learning (ITBL) program created to support faculty engaging in blended course redesign. Garrison, Anderson, and Archer's (2000) Community of Inquiry framework has been adapted to a…
Descriptors: Leadership, Instructional Design, College Faculty, College Instruction
Leadership in Continuing Studies: The Reflections of a Dean.
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Garrison, Randy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2001
Outlines characteristics of transformational leadership: clear vision, strategic goals, decisiveness, willingness to listen, and commitment to change. Uses the Extension unit of the University of Alberta to illustrate a model of continuing studies and issues faced by deans. (Contains 14 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Deans, Extension Education, Foreign Countries
Adopting Disruptive Technologies in Traditional Universities: Continuing Education as an Incubator for Innovation.
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Archer, Walter; Anderson, Terry; Garrison, Randy – Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 1999
Traditional universities are feeling the impact of "disruptive technologies" such as distance education. Seeing how businesses have responded to such disruptions, universities should "incubate" innovations in a semiautonomous unit such as continuing education, which can address new markets with low margins. (SK)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Distance Education, Educational Innovation, Educational Technology