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THE Forum is a showcase conference that is uniquely interdisciplinary and
faculty-driven. Its purpose is to support excellent teaching and learning
through the dissemination of successful, innovative instructional
strategies, especially those that involve the integration of technology. In
a supportive atmosphere of sharing, faculty can network with colleagues to
develop further innovations. Faculty participants always take from their
conference experience concrete, proven ideas for improving their teaching.
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Articles
Designing Distance Learning to Reach Underserved
Populations
Faye
Hall Jackson, PhD & William N. Chernish, PhD
Distance-Learning: Future Options For Virtual Design
Studios Sadik C. Artunc, FASLA
Facilitation of Critical Thinking and Deep
Cognitive Processing by Structured Discussion Board Activities
Jocelyn Thomas
Get Students to Focus on Learning:
Teach them HOW to Learn!
Saundra Yancy McGuire, Ph.D.
Instructional
Opportunities in Virtual Reference J. B. Hill and Beth Stahr
Letting Go Without Losing Touch
Heather O’Connell
No Longer an Island:
Developing The Instructor/Support Collaboration Framework Needed To Develop
Innovative And Effective Course Delivery With WebCT Sylvia
J. Hysong, Ph.D. &Tamara Hoskings, M.S.
Old Dog, New
Tricks: Reflections on the Land-Grant University, A Flagship Agenda, and
Vision 2020 Cecile C. Guin, Ph.D., LCSW
& Barrett Kennedy, Ph.D.
Web-Based Web-Enhanced Curriculum
Carolyn P.
Delahoussaye & Mary B. Neiheisel
Who Moved My Training? The Intersection of Trainers, Trainees and
Technology
Donna M. Austin
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In its six years
of existence, it has steadily grown from a regional to a national conference,
with participants coming, at first, primarily from Louisiana and now from
twenty-five states. The conference content has been rich and diverse.
Plenary speakers have included titans of distance education and e-learning
such as Sir John Daniel of the Open University, Gary Bachula of Internet2,
and best-selling authors Rena Palloff and Keith Pratt.
Since its inception,
participants and staff of THE Forum have discussed ways to further disseminate
innovative teaching strategies presented during the conference. For the
conference's sixth outing, the decision was made to offer a selective
conference Proceedings online. The Electronic Proceedings provides an
expanded showcase for the most innovative and interesting ideas presented
during the conference. By making it available online, the work of these
conference participants is accessible to an even broader audience. Invitation
to publish in the Proceedings is based on a pre-conference peer review
of conference proposals. Thus, THE Forum is serving not only its attendees,
but the whole of the higher education academy.
We invite you
to browse the site and learn from your colleagues. If you would like to
leave a comment, please feel free to do so in the comment section of the
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