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Volume 1, Number 3 Contents DISTANCE FEATURED ARTICLES LEARNING 1 A TALE OF TWO STATE SYSTEMS: MODELS OF HIGH SCHOOL COURSE COLUMNS DELIVERY Mark Hawkes and Jordan Terveen ENDS AND MEANS E-learning Study Skills and Strategies 32 7 AS THE USE OF VIDEOCONFERENCING —by Ryan Watkins TECHNOLOGY BOOMS, SO DOES THE NEED SUSTAINABILITY FOR CREATIVE TECHNICAL SUPPORT Leveraging Knowledge Gary Brown Assets: Do Less and Accomplish More 35 —by Jonathon Levy 11 FIVE SMOOTH STONES: FIGHTING FOR THE SURVIVAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION NEW MEDIA, NEW LEARNING Steve Wheeler That’s Entrainment! 37 —by Craig Ullman 18 VIDEOCONFERENCING: THE TELEVISION PEDAGOGY CORNER CONNECTION Do You Chunk? Robert M. Starr You Should 39 —by David Graf 21 A DISTANT LEGACY: BLURRED VISIONS– AND FINALLY . RENEWED CHOICES FOR CAMPUS AND Distance Learning Leaders: Who are They? 48 DISTANCE EDUCATION —by Michael Simonson Don Olcott, Jr. Reports from USDLA 24 THE DISTANCE LEARNING LEADER: WHAT USDLA Launches New YOU DON’T KNOW COULD HURT YOU Distance Learning Accreditation Board . Tom Land and Tony Bright DLAB 41 —by John G. Flores USDLA: The Transformation 43 —by Darcy W. Hardy Women, Leadership, and Distance Education: A Brave New World or Darker Shades of the Glass Ceiling? 45 —by Don Olcott, Jr. i Distance Learning Volume 1, Issue 3 PURPOSE to the advancement of education DISTANCE LEARNING by serving as a resource for Distance Learning, an official practitioners and by supporting EDITOR publication of the United States them in their professional self Michael Simonson Distance Learning Association development. 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