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Winter 1999 - Volume 2, Number 4 Why Do Educators Embrace High-Cost Technologies? The reasons for selecting a more expensive alternative are related to the world view of college instructors about the teaching-learning process, traditional functions of the university, and an evolutionary process of technology acquisition.  Administrators should carefully weigh the costs of development against the outcomes to contain costs of distance education delivery... Students Perceptions of Distance Learning, Online Learning and the Traditional Classroom This study finds that distance learning and on-line learning technologies are perceived by students as having some benefits although they are not necessarily knowledge related... Designing and Administering a Collaborative International Course Using Distance Technology Desktop videoconferencing and WebCT technologies are used to administer an international course on Women’s Healthy Aging. The development of the course and methods of evaluations are presented... Assessment Measures: Pre-Tests for Successful Distance Teaching and Learning? What skills and qualities should or must one possess as a distance student? And, likewise, is teaching online a natural outgrowth of classroom teaching? Or, are there qualities inherent to instructors in the online arena contributing to "successful" teaching? Incentives and Obstacles Influencing Higher Education Faculty and Administrators to Teach Via Distance This study examined incentives that encourage faculty to develop educational opportunities via distance and obstacles that discourage them from doing so . . .

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