CIT Infobits and Distance Education

“CIT Infobits is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT’s Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.” – http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/

I’ve been a subscriber for a long time, and usually find at least one new thing in each issue.  The December issue is particularly interesting with two mentions of significant distance ed articles.  The first is a study from the e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology, in which 76,866! distance students were compared to the same number of traditional students to see how effective distance learning was.  The second article comes from the Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, entitled “Addressing Faculty Concerns About Distance Learning”.  Good stuff.