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"In the future, as higher education shifts from traditional classroom teaching to on-line learning, academic support programs will increasingly become more in demand by on-line learners especially advising, career preparation, learning skills, orientation, tutoring, and intervention to overcome on-line technical problems. However, although many services may be made available on-line, academic support for both faculty and students will still be necessary for many students since they may be miles from the parent institution offering the course and will insist on some face-to-face interaction with academic support personnel." Frank L. Christ. “Academic Support Programs” entry in Higher Education in the United States: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishers

“Online learning now depends more on the ability of educators and trainers to tutor and support learners online than on the technology itself.” Dr. Ian Heywood, 2000 World Open Learning Conference and Exhibition, Birmingham, England.

"Most university students have never been formally taught to learn how to study, either in high school or college." Gardner, L. (1998). Why we must change: The research evidence. Thought and Action. 14 (Spring), 71-88.

"the challenge is not simply to incorporate learning technologies into current institutional approaches, but rather to change our fundamental views about effective teaching and learning and to use technology to do so" ( Higher Education in an Era of Digital  Competition: Choices and Challenges by Donald E. Hanna and Associates.  Atwood Publishing, 2000, p.61.

"Faculty are moving forward, technologies are improving, and student demand is increasing -- but few changes are taking place in the university structure as a whole to accommodate the special needs of the distance-learning student." Richard Bothel, dean of continuing education and distance learning at Troy State University. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/spring41/bothel41.html

"Faculty developers can learn much from colleagues who work in learning assistance programs on campus. Transforming universities into fully integrated learning communities is a requirement for promoting academic success in the new millennium. When the "millennial students" walk onto campus, it's time to call upon those who know them first hand."  The Millennial Learner—Challenges and Opportunities: Saundra Yancy  McGuire (Director of the Center for Academic Success and Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) and Dennis A. Williams at POD Conference in Vancouver.

"Preparing students today for tomorrow's workforce has a lot to do with teaching about how to use and evaluate knowledge. The Internet is rapidly becoming the biggest repository of information we have ever known. The key will be in our ability to find, evaluate and use the information it provides. We need to teach analytical and organizational skills. Students must know how to evaluate data. Gone are then days when students spent their time memorizing facts that were readily available at their fingertips. Students need to learn communication and study skills. We must give them the type of tools that prepare them for lifelong learning, so they know how to study and how to evaluate the importance of what they learn." Leight, M.  Converge (December 2000, 3(12) 11.

“Online students can be better retained, experience greater course satisfaction, and learn more in less time with greater ease and confidence when an online course is linked to an Academic Support System and is designed with activities and information that assist them to become a collegial group and to learn more effectively and efficiently.”   

Christ, F.L.  Achieving student retention, satisfaction, and success through online pedagogy. A presentation at TechEd Long Beach, February 26, 2002. 

"Student retention in the online course is a major concern. ...   ... "...the availability of information resources and assistance throughout the course are some solutions to high online drop-out rates."  

Moore, G.S., Winograd, K. and D. Lange. (2001). You can teach online: Building a creative learning environment. McGraw-Hill Higher Education. p. 3.5  

"...primary  variables responsible for discriminating between completers and non-completers included three of the Likert scale factors: study environment, motivation, and computer confidence."

Osborn, V. (2001). Identifying at-risk students in videoconferencing and web-based distance education. The American Journal of Distance Education, 15:1, 47.

"A third area of concern for distance students is the lack of support and services such as providing tutors, academic planners and schedulers, and technical assistance. The isolation that results from the distance learning process can complicate the learning process for adult students. Support for distance learners should not be overlooked when planning distance programs. Students need tutors and academic planners to help them complete courses on time and to act as a support system when stress becomes a problem.  Galusha, J. (1997). Barriers to learning in distance education.  Interpersonal Computing and Technology. Retrieved at http://www.emoderators.com/ipct-j/1997/n4/galusha.html

“The fifth challenge facing the use of the Web in universities is to how best use the Web to encourage good learning behaviours in students. Most good learning behaviours rely on metacognition and this is universally regarded as an essential attribute of good learning. …   …Encouraging metacognition develops students' knowledge of the nature of their learning, of their effective learning strategies, and of their learning strengths and weakness.  …   …The Web has potential in this area to meet this challenge if appropriate instructional design strategies are employed in the development of material for the Web. It is unlikely to occur if lecturers just mount their printed course material and use the Web as a convenient delivery medium. If the design of courses allows individual exploration coupled with reflection and the comparison of a student's views with others, as well as the encouragement of good learning behaviours, then metacognition can be enhanced and good learning can result. 

Fetherston, T. (2001). Pedagogical Challenges for the World Wide Web. Educational Technology Review. 9:1. Retrieved January 21, 2002 at http://www.aace.org/pubs/etr/fetherston.cfm

"Learning Centers can be viewed as the education provider's physical and social "Point of Presence" with the distance learner. As such, learners should expect to find an array of functions and services supporting their distance education activities offered at or facilitated through the Learning Center site." IPSE (Indiana Partnership for Statewide Education) –‘Learning Centers & Three Tiered Distance Education Delivery Model'  Retrieved September 12, 2002 from http://www.ihets.org/consortium/ipse/learningcentermodel.html 

 “Connect the Disconnected”    Dr. Ray Ganey, Cochise College, AZ

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