WVU faculty receive distance learning grants

April 28th, 2000

Thirteen West Virginia University faculty have received distance learning grants for teaching projects ranging from an on-line English class to a web-based physical education course.

The grants are a part of an initiative by the WVU Division of Extended Learning in conjunction with Academic Computing to increase educational opportunities for students located off-campus.

“The emphasis of the grant, said Sue Day-Perroots, director of WVU Extended Learning Programs,”is to create courses that are available to students any time, any where.”

All of the classes created by the grants will be available for students in 2001. A total of $183,145 will be awarded during this, the programs first year.

These are the faculty receiving grants and their projects:

  • Thomas Miles, On-Line English 105: Business and Professional Writing, $8,733
  • Ralph Hanson, Development of an Extended Learning Course: IMC Direct Marketing, $4,376
  • Elizabeth Juckett, A Plan to Develop English 22 as a Distance Learning Course, $5,926
  • Briane Turley, On-Line Course in American Religious History, $17,630
  • Barbara Ludlow, Web Simulcasts and Rebroadcasts of Satellite Class Sessions in a Distance Education Program, $9,980
  • Carl Rotter, Web-Based Modern Physics, $15,000
  • Paul Speaker, Asynchronous Web-Based Delivery of Graduate Corporate Finance, $15,000
  • James Harner, An Intelligent Distributed Environment for Adaptative Learning, $15,000
  • Lynn Houser, A Web/Internet-Based Distance Education Masters Degree Program in Physical Education Teacher Education, $26,500
  • Edward Keller, Construction of a Graduate Distance Learning General Biology Course for Public School Teachers, $15,000
  • Steve Smith, Asynchronous Web-Based Graduate Introduction to E-Commerce, $15,000
  • Randyl Elkins, Asynchronous Web-Based Graduate Human Resource Information Systems, $15,000
  • Shahab Mohaghegh, Developing a Virtual Classroom on the Internet for Freshman Engineering 1 and Freshman Engineering 2, $15,000

For more information on the Division of Extended Learning. Call 304-293-2834 or 1-800-2LEARN2.