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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Curless Best Practices in Live Content Acquisitions by Distance Learning Alan Greenberg and Russ Colbert Organizations Teaching Online: Hints from the Trenches Pat Kelley and Nancy Maushak Online Case-based Learning: Components, Applications, and Hyeonjin Kim, Michael Hannafin, and Minchi Assessment Kim Should Distance Education Constitute Different Rewards for Lisa O'Quinn and Michael Corry Faculty? We Need a Plan: An Instructional Design Approach for Distance Michael Simonson and Charles Schlosser Education Courses Selected Strategies for Instruction in a Web Based Course Annette Sherry and Shirley Yamashita Volume 1, Issue 3 Distance Learning iii A Tale of Two State Systems Models of High School Course Delivery Mark Hawkes and Jordan Terveen issouri and South the river is a major transportation Act, which means restoring the Mis- Dakota, though some- resource. souri to more natural high spring Mwhat geographically This recent year, managing the and low summer flows to encourage removed from each other, have river flow has put the two states at fish spawning and bird nesting by much in common. The most notable odds. Federal judicial activity has threatened and endangered species of their commonalities is the great