| College |
How Selected |
Reason(s) for Acceptance |
Reason(s) for Rejection |
| Cuyahoga Community College |
League for Innovation, Learning Abstracts, Aug 02, article on focus online learning |
Website visit reveals many options for distance education in a wide variety of formats; many supports for web students; standard web course syllabus |
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| Franklin University |
Articulation agreement with CVCC; recommendation of committee member who took faculty development course |
Examination of supporting documents and personal testimony; availability of online orientation course for faculty and students; encouragement of learning communities; common course template |
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| Kapi’olani Community College |
Article in Syllabus, Aug 02, development of online pilot project to build a community of learners |
Emphasis on serving the adult online student with wide variety of programs and courses; visited course had excellent web syllabus; awareness of web accessibility issues; visited course had excellent adaptive approach for adult learners; encourages active learning; visited course uses excellent adaptation to different learning styles; uses learning objects |
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| Maricopa Community College |
Cyber Teacher workshop participant, Alliance+ Dept of Education project |
Website visit reveals many options for distance education in a wide variety of formats; visited course has good measurable objectives |
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| MIT |
Open Courseware project and implications for web courses; article in Syllabus Dec 01 pedagogical issues for online instruction |
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Web courses appear to be support for on-campus classes; online/distance education does not appear to be a focus; Open Courseware project not directly related to web courses |
| Moraine Valley Community College |
Article in Converge, Feb/Mar 02; support for development of online classes and student support |
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Student support services are outstanding but previewed web courses did not appear different or better than CVCC courses |
| Open University |
Recommendation of committee member who visited UK |
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Distance courses do not appear to be primarily web based, but consist of a variety of print and other media formats |
| Seton Hall University |
Article in Syllabus Jan 02; curriculum development initiative to incorporate multimedia into narrative case studies |
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Not many total web courses available; emphasis on-campus support for traditional classes |
| University of Phoenix |
Largest population of web students; Government Technology Sept 02; personal testimony of CVCC instructor enrolled at UOP |
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Focus primarily on graduate programs; based on business model; inability to view actual course. |
| Xavier University |
Article in THE Journal Oct 01; GE Fund grant |
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Not many total web courses available; emphasis on-campus support for traditional classes |
| Florence Darlington Technical College |
Recommendation by CVCC President, Dr. Darrel Staat |
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Excellent administrative structure and support for web students; web courses were average |
