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50 Years of ERIC
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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Making a Match: Aligning Audience, Goals, and Content in Online Adjunct Training
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Shattuck, Julie; Anderson, Terry – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2013
As increasing numbers of higher education students take online courses, there is a corresponding need for additional instructors to teach these students. The research literature indicates that there are different instructor roles, competencies, and attitudes that are required for teaching effectively online than for teaching in campus-based…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Faculty Development
Self-Paced Learners Meet Social Software: An Exploration of Learners' Attitudes, Expectations and Experience
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Anderson, Terry; Poellhuber, Bruno; McKerlich, Ross – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2010
Social networking and communications tools have become widely used in entertainment and social applications and there is growing interest in their use in formal education applications. Distance education and especially those types that are based on self-paced programming models may be the biggest beneficiaries of the use of these new tools to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Distance Education, Computer Software, Programming