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>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000
>From: Carolyn Kotlas <kotlas@email.unc.edu>
>
>CIT INFOBITS June 2000 No. 24 ISSN 1521-9275
>
> Calculating the Costs of Online Education
> Condition of Education Report
> Search Education Web Pages and Electronic Books
> Recommended Reading
>
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> - CALCULATING THE COSTS OF ONLINE EDUCATION
>"Even though there are dozens of methods of delivering courses through
>distance education, the offering of online courses through the World
>Wide Web has existed for less than a decade. Because of this recent
>evolution, many institutions may not realize the full impact of the
>cost of online education." Brian M. Morgan, director of the Center for
>Instructional Technology at Marshall University, has developed an
>online interactive worksheet to help administrators calculate the price
>tag for creating an online program. The worksheet is on the Web at
>http://webpages.marshall.edu/~morgan16/onlinecosts/
>
>An accompanying paper, "Is Distance Learning Worth It? Helping to
>Determine the Costs of Online Courses," discusses "what areas must be
>considered, what effects online courses may have on an institution,
>what costs are involved in the establishment of this type of venture,
>and also examine[s] costs and possible problems that may be encountered
>with ongoing course offerings." The paper, in PDF format, is available
>at http://multimedia.marshall.edu/onlinecosts/distancelearning.pdf
>
>For more information, contact Brian M. Morgan, Center for Instructional
>Technology, 400 Hal Greer Boulevard, Marshall University, Huntington,
>WV 25755-2066 USA; tel: 304-696-6469; email: brian.morgan@marshall.edu;
>Web: http://multimedia.marshall.edu/cit/
>
>......................................................................
> - CONDITION OF EDUCATION REPORT
>The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary U.S.
>agency for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the
>United States and other countries. Each year NCES produces THE
>CONDITION OF EDUCATION, a report summarizing the health of education
>and showing changes and trends over time, regions, populations, or
>countries. The edition for 2000 is available at no charge on the Web at
>http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2000062
>
>For more information about NCES, see their website at
>http://nces.ed.gov/
>
>......................................................................
> - SEARCH EDUCATION WEB PAGES AND ELECTRONIC BOOKS
>MaxBot.com is a developer of advanced Internet search engine technology
>focused on improving the searchability of online content. SearchEdu.com
>indexes Web pages in the .edu domain. SearcheBooks is a search engine
>that indexes the full text of thousands of online books. Both services
>allow simple keyword searching. SearcheBooks' searches return a URL for
>the provider's Web page and a URL for the full text of the book.
>
>SearchEdu.com is on the Web at http://www.searchedu.com/
>SearcheBooks is on the Web at http://www.searchebooks.com/
>
>......................................................................
> - RECOMMENDED READING
>NetSlaves: True Tales of Working the Web by Bill Lessard and Steve
>Baldwin [New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000. ISBN: 0-07-135243-0]
>
>Have you ever felt envious of all the people working in Internet
>business making huge salaries with millions of dollars worth of stock
>options? Then, according to the authors, you've bought into the Net's
>"Universal Success Myth" -- "the idea that winners predominate in this
>business and losers are the exception." Lessard and Baldwin set out to
>debunk the mythology and provide evidence that "most Internet careers
>are nasty, brutish, and short." Workers live from paycheck to paycheck
>with no health benefits and little job security, putting up with long
>hours, crazy schedules, and insane management. The authors also have a
>website, "Net Slaves: Horror Stories of Working the Web," at
>http://www.netslaves.com/
>
>
>Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web
>by Janet E. Alexander and Marsha Ann Tate [Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
>Associates, 1999. ISBN: 0-8058-3123-1]
>
>"The book includes easy to use checklists for step-by-step quality
>evaluations of virtually any web page. The checklists can also be used
>by web authors to help them ensure quality information on their pages.
>In addition, Web Wisdom addresses other important issues such as
>understanding the ways that advertising and sponsorship may affect the
>quality of web information"(Publisher's note). The authors are
>librarians in the Wolfram Memorial Library at Widener Library. Their
>evaluation checklists and other related information are on the Web at
>http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webeval.htm
>
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