COURSE PORTFOLIO: A TOOL FOR ONLINE TEACHING

Lissa Pollacia; Richard Tarver

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2000 (2000) pp. 22–24

A course portfolio consists of materials that instructors collect and organize to demonstrate how a course is taught and facilitated or managed. A course portfolio can include any relevant documentation such as the syllabus, exams, exercises,...

Topics: Administrators, Portfolios

Is Microsoft Certification Worth Its Salt?

Richard Tarver; Mary Breth Tarver; Patty Varnado; Sarah Wright

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2009 (Oct 26, 2009) pp. 3176–3180

Students who were enrolled in the course Introduction to Computer Applications – COMP 1020, presented by the Mathematics Department, College of Science and Technology, Northwestern State University were surveyed to determine the degree to which...

What Decision-Makers Should Know About Web Based Delivery of Distance Education

A. Richard Tarver; Lissa F. Pollacia

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 1999 (1999) pp. 498–502

The current American education system is faced with shifting market patterns resulting from rapid changes in the technologies designed to enhance the delivery of educational services. Technology's influence cannot be denied as it is changing the way ...

Topics: Educational Technology, Change, Distance Education

Encouraging Microsoft Office Specialist Certification for Students through Faculty/Staff Involvement

Richard Tarver; Kathy Autrey; Susan Nealy; Leigh Ann Myers; Mary Beth Tarver

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 985–988

In Louisiana's Vision 2020, sustained economic development is said to depend primarily upon technology. This paper focuses on activities used at a rural public university to increase faculty/staff awareness of the importance of Microsoft Office...

Topics: Training, Faculty

SOME “DO’S And DON’TS” In The DELIVERY Of DISTANCE/ON-LINE EDUCATION

A. Richard Tarver; Lissa Pollacia; Thomas Hanson; Claude Simpson; Walter Creighton

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1879–1881

The current American education system is vastly different from the institutions of twenty years ago. The pervasive influence of technology is changing the way we teach, the way we conduct research, and the way we seek to provide increased...

Topics: Classrooms, Educational Technology