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Internet delivery of instruction: issues of best teaching practice, administrative hurdles, and old‐fashioned politics

Internet delivery of instruction: issues of best teaching practice, administrative hurdles, and... The authors describe the preparation and execution of a statistics and a fine arts course, each of which was offered in parallel to an on‐campus classroom group and an online Internet group. The authors address the pedagogical, administrative, and political issues that must be resolved before one can legitimately offer a course of study to an Internet audience that the instructor will never physically see. Pedagogical issues are paramount if the goal is to achieve best teaching practice. In addition, there are numerous administrative hurdles to resolve where admission officers, registrars, and governing boards are working from a traditional mindset where rules and guidelines are based on local geography and physical presence. Further, political issues quickly present themselves, including time issues, faculty‐colleague and administrator perceptions of “legitimate teaching activity”, and valuations of the course. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Campus-Wide Information Systems Emerald Publishing

Internet delivery of instruction: issues of best teaching practice, administrative hurdles, and old‐fashioned politics

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Emerald Publishing
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Copyright © 1998 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
ISSN
1065-0741
DOI
10.1108/10650749810248302
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Abstract

The authors describe the preparation and execution of a statistics and a fine arts course, each of which was offered in parallel to an on‐campus classroom group and an online Internet group. The authors address the pedagogical, administrative, and political issues that must be resolved before one can legitimately offer a course of study to an Internet audience that the instructor will never physically see. Pedagogical issues are paramount if the goal is to achieve best teaching practice. In addition, there are numerous administrative hurdles to resolve where admission officers, registrars, and governing boards are working from a traditional mindset where rules and guidelines are based on local geography and physical presence. Further, political issues quickly present themselves, including time issues, faculty‐colleague and administrator perceptions of “legitimate teaching activity”, and valuations of the course.

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Campus-Wide Information Systems – Emerald Publishing

Published: Dec 1, 1998

Keywords: Administration; Distance learning; Internet

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