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Aligning Paper Tests with Multimedia Instruction
Scott L. Howell
New Directions for Teaching and Learning Vol. 100 (2004) pp. 75–79
Although instructional methods are moving in ever greater number to a multimedia base, testing is not. What principles should be considered in correcting this misalignment?
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Using the National Student Data Clearinghouse to Learn More about the Educational Journey of Students
Parker S. Howell; Scott L. Howell
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 21, No. 3 (2018)
The National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) has available for research a large data warehouse of enrollment and graduation information from 1993 to the present for nearly all postsecondary students in the United States. In this most recent academic...
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E-Mail Alerts and RSS Feeds for Distance Learning Administrators
Allyson Washburn; Scott L. Howell
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 11, No. 2
This article describes how E-Mail Alerts and RSS feeds can be helpful tools for busy distance education administrators by helping them to efficiently sort through the research and news information that is now available. These tools and their...
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How Five Newly Created Reports Using Analytics Informed and Surprised One Distance Learning Administrator
Scott L. Howell; Beihe Le
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 20, No. 4 (2017)
The purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the best practice of using "big data" reports to help distance learning administrators better understand their own programs and represent them to stakeholders. The authors examine five...
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Ten Efficient Research Strategies for Distance Learning
Thomas C. Wright; Scott L. Howell
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 7, No. 1 (2004)
Today's distance education administrator, frequently with an expertise in another academic discipline, is also supposed to be a distance education scholar. This expectation results from the recent interest in distance learning that nearly all...
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Use of Distance Education by Religions of the World to Train, Edify and Educate Adherents
P Clint Rogers; Scott L. Howell
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning Vol. 5, No. 3 (Nov 01, 2004)
Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, Jewish, and Christian organizations are all experimenting with distance education for various reasons and to different extents, due to religious, economic, and political factors. Religious institutions worldwide are ...
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The New (and Old) News about Cheating for Distance Educators
Scott L. Howell; Don Sorensen; Holly Rose Tippets
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 12, No. 3 (2009)
Those in distance education are faced with a formidable challenge to ensure the identity of test takers and integrity of exam results, especially since students are physically removed from the classroom and distributed across the globe. This news...
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Six Ways to Increase Enrollments at an Extended Campus
Steven S. Christensen; Scott L. Howell; Jordan Christensen
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 18, No. 4
This is a "best practices" article focused on sharing six new academic scheduling strategies recently employed by the BYU Salt Lake Center to optimize course offerings and increase enrollments. These strategies are generalizable to other...
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Scalability in Distance Education: "Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?"
R Dwight Laws; Scott L. Howell; Nathan K. Lindsay
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 6, No. 4
The decision to increase distance education enrollment hinges on the factors of pedagogical effectiveness, interactivity, audience, faculty incentives, retention, program type, and profitability. A complex interplay exists among these scalability...
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Reevaluating Course Completion in Distance Education: Avoiding the Comparison between Apples and Oranges
Scott L. Howell; R Dwight Laws; Nathan K. Lindsay
Quarterly Review of Distance Education Vol. 5, No. 4 (2004) pp. 243–252
Critics of distance education frequently assert that completion rates are lower in distance education courses than in traditional courses. Such criticism comes despite sparse and inconclusive research on completion rates for distance and traditional ...
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Another Simple yet Effective Best Practice for Increasing Enrollments at an Extended Campus
Steven S. Christensen; Scott L. Howell; C. Giles Hall
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 19, No. 4 (2016)
This article is a follow-up to a previous article, "Six Ways to Increase Enrollments at an Extended Campus," published in this journal (vol. 17, no. 4, winter 2015), wherein a seventh best practice to increase course offerings and increase ...
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What Can the Business World Teach Us about Strategic Planning?
Jonathan S. Spackman; Jennifer Thorup; Scott L. Howell
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 18, No. 2
The need for a reliable strategic planning framework for distance educators and their institutions has never been greater than it is now. Increased government regulations, accreditation standards, and competition are converging with decreased...
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Thirty-Two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning
Scott L. Howell; Peter B. Williams; Nathan K. Lindsay
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 6, No. 3
Recent issues in this journal and other prominent distance-learning journals have established the need for administrators to be informed and prepared with strategic plans equal to foreseeable challenges. This article provides decision makers with 32 ...
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Should Tutoring Services Be Added to Our High-Enrolling Distance Education Courses?
Peter B. Williams; Scott L. Howell; R. Dwight Laws; Emily Metheny
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration Vol. 9, No. 4 (2006)
The researchers of this study selected four pragmatic research questions that distance learning administrators with high-enrolling Independent Study courses, similar to those that Brigham Young University offers through its Department of Independent ...
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Seven strategies for enabling faculty success in distance education
Scott L. Howell; Farhad Saba; Nathan K. Lindsay; Peter B. Williams
Internet and Higher Education Vol. 7, No. 1 (2004) pp. 33–49
Many challenges associated with distance education and technology integration initiatives focus on faculty issues and concerns. This article analyzes these difficulties by identifying from the literature current trends affecting faculty, faculty...
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