More Distance-Education Students Means More Off-Site Instructors, Survey Finds – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education

More Distance-Education Students Means More Off-Site Instructors, Survey Finds – Wired Campus – The Chronicle of Higher Education:

“Enrollment growth in distance education at community colleges outpaced overall growth in higher education, and colleges are increasingly turning to off-campus instructors who telecommute to deal with that demand, according to the results of the Instructional Technology Council’s 2010 Distance Education Survey.”

New Journal: Journal of Ethnographic Theory

HAU, Journal of Ethnographic Theory, is a new, international, peer-reviewed, open-access and copyleft journal which aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of anthropology, and return it to the forefront of conceptual developments in the discipline. The journal aims to publish online suitable manuscripts within six months from their receipt.

 

The Editorial Board include Marshall Sahlins, Philippe Descola, Marilyn Strathern, Caroline Humphrey, Jeanne Favret-Saada, Bruno Latour, Joel Robbins, Maurice Godelier, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Stephen Gudeman, Bruce Kapferer, Yunxiang Yan and many others.

 

http://www.haujournal.org

OSU Funded for eTech Ohio Teacher Facilitation Grants

Today a team from OSU was selected as one of 10 Universities  in Ohio to receive an eTech Ohio Teacher Planning Grant to better support the integration of technology by Ohio Teachers and to better prepare new teachers to use technology in their teaching.

http://www.etech.ohio.gov/educators/teacher-planning-grant/

Project Co-PI: Rick Voithofer, Associate Professor, School of Educational Policy and Leadership

Project Co-PI: Dean Cristol, Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning

Project Participants:

Anika Anthony, Assistant Professor, OSU- School of Educational Policy and Leadership

Tracey Stuckey-Mickell, Senior Lecturer, OSU-School of Educational Policy and Leadership

Sue Becker, Lecturer, School of Educational Policy and Leadership and School of Teaching and Learning

Hea-Jin Lee Associate Professor, School of Teaching and Learning

Nicole Luthy, Ohio Resource Center

School Partners:

Sherwood Middle School, Columbus Public Schools
Waggoner Road Junior High School, Reynoldsburg City Schools 
Lima City Schools