Conference Session

e-Learning Course Development and Instruction

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Robertson, Arizona State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

manager in any high-techcompany has three major features to reconcile: The deliverables are managed within projects that are tightly constrained to meet very specific goals on-time and within budget. The reward process therefore drives most projects to an optimized point solution. Systems are continuously evolving so there is also a higher need for a platform design that can deliver many point solution variants over time. However, no customers for the point solutions wish to pay the infrastructure costs for platform development and support. The system provider can take on that strategic role but it implies higher overhead and a perpetual accounting problem. New technology, especially for data

Conference Session

Faculty Development for Distance Learning

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Susan Donohue, The College of New Jersey; Christine Schnittka, University of Kentucky; Larry Richards, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

theyseemed to be the most logical candidates for recruitment. However, many students were notacademically prepared to enroll in college STEM courses without remediation, often becauseprevious curriculum choices resulted in limited exposure to math and science in these students’programs of study. Other obstacles include students’ lack of awareness of engineering as apossible career because of unfamiliarity with the profession.1 One natural extension, then, wasto focus projects at the middle school level, where timely interventions would ideally lead toenrollment in classes that would better prepare students for the rigors of college STEM studies.Research, however, is increasingly indicating that that intervention efforts must begin as early