E-Learning at the Crossroad-What Price Quality?
By Stephen Ruth, Martha Sammons and Lindsey Poulin
Offers five practical yet politically sensitive strategic approaches
to both improve the quality and reduce the cost of postsecondary distance
education.
The Invisible Professor and the Future of Virtual Faculty
By Martha Sammons and Stephen Ruth
A realistic and somewhat pessimistic view of the quality trajectory
of postsecondary distance learning approaches with dozens of examples
and insights.
E-Learning--A
Financial and Strategic Perspective", Educause
Quarterly
By Stephen Ruth
A challenge to traditional evaluation schemes for distance learning,
the article selects three examples: traditional universities, for-profit
universities (especially University of Phoenix), and the unique Open
University system in Great Britain.
Measuring the Yield of On-Line Telemedicine Training: Methods and
Challenges
By Stephen Ruth
An examination of return in investment metrics for online training
using telemedicine as a focus.
Virtual Learning: Between Imagination and Challenges
By Stephen Ruth
An examination of some of the tradeoffs that need to be considered
in balancing costs and benefits in Distance from an international perspective.
Designing an IT College
By P. Denning, R. Anthale, N. Dabbaugh, D. Menasce, J. Offutt, M. Pullen,
S.Ruth and R. Sandu
Describes the results of a team-oriented approach to design an IT curriculum
for the new University of the United Arab Emirates.
Let’s
Get Real About Technology-Based Learning: The Medium is NOT the Message
By Stephen Ruth
This article gives a list of performance-based metrics for evaluating
post-secondary distance learning.
Leveraging Information Technology in Education: Better Models (and
Maybe Fewer Computers) Needed
By Stephen Ruth
A brief look at some alternatives to traditional views on distance
learning.
Computerizing
College Composition
by Joel Foreman
In response to the daunting workload and limited resources of most college composition
programs, this article examines how information technology can serve to streamline
the process.
Distance
Learning in Developing Countries: Is Anyone Measuring Cost-Benefits?
by Stephen Ruth and Min Shi
This article takes a brief, sober look at Distance Learning in the context of
developing countries. Further it includes a model "Estimated cost vs. yield
points"for developing countries’ current implementation of various
Distance Learning approaches.
The Distance
Learning Playing Field: Do We Need Different Hashmarks?
by Stephen Ruth and Jiwan Giri
Article stresses the need for an effective, two-dimensional field model
for comparing distance learning programs, and includes a model. Through
this model, one may chart a given program through two variables that
designate the roles of instructional technology ("tech")
and personal interaction with the instructor.
“E-Learning--A
Financial and Strategic Perspective”, Educause Quarterly
by Stephen Ruth
Examines the complex hurdles that confront a manager trying to gain financial
advantage from e learning.
Exploring
the Middle Ground: A Course on Teaming in Cyberspace
by Stephen Ruth, Joel Foreman, and Ted Tschudy
Article explores a proposed classification system for determining the
appropriate dose of IT intervention in college classes.
Getting Real About Technology-Based Learning: The Medium is NOT the
Message
by Dr. Stephen Ruth
Article examines the degree to which traditional class time can be displaced
by Information Technology interventions in the context of a 3 credit
MIS course required at most universities.
Leveraging Information
Technology In Education: Better Models (and Maybe Fewer Computers) Needed
by Dr. Stephen Ruth
Article outlining how using new approaches to leverage information technology
can produce a better final product than simply investing in more information
technology.
“Measuring
the Yield of On-Line Telemedicine Training: Methods and Challenges”
by Stephen Ruth
Reviews potential metrics for use in measuring the outcomes of a major
e-learning intervention.
