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In This
Issue
~September 2007~
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1.
Welcome
2. Chancellor
Feature
3. DE Student
Feature
4. DE
Day
5. DE Student
Cards
6.
Blackboard
7.
Financial Aid Refunds
8. Course
Management
System
9. DE Forum
10. DE Orientation
11.
Joyner Library
12. Pirate
Athletics
13. ECU News
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DE Day ~
ECU Pirates From a
Distance
Academic Outreach and the Division of
Continuing Studies at ECU are sponsoring the
2nd Annual DE Day for Pirate Football
on Saturday, October 27, 2007.
The ECU Pirates will celebrate Homecoming
as we take on the Blazers of UAB in a
3:30pm game. ECU is
celebrating its Centennial year, so now is the
time to come to Greenville,
visit the ECU campus and show your Purple and
Gold Pride!
Tickets to the football
game can be purchased online at
the ECU
Athletics website. Please enter promotion code
ECUDED. Game tickets are discounted to
$15.00 each for adults & children and there
is no limit as to how many tickets can be
purchased.
For complete
information, visit the DE Day website:
www.options.ecu.edu/deday.cfm. |
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Course Management
System
At Academic Outreach, one
of our major commitments is to provide a feature
rich & user friendly course management
system (CMS) for teaching and learning for both
on-campus and distance education courses at
ECU. In order to provide this service, we
are reviewing three course management
systems: Blackboard Version 7, Moodle,
and
Sakai. During the Fall 2007 faculty could be using Blackboard version
7, Moodle or
Sakai. Moodle &
Sakai are both open-source CMS
platforms we have chosen for the
study. To read about the CMS Platform
study, visit the website
website http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/cms/index.cfm. If you have questions about this
study, send an email to ecuao@ecu.edu. |
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Distance Education Forum
in
OneStop
 Have you checked
out the Distance Education forum yet? This
forum is a place for distance education students
to share ideas, questions, or
comments. Feel free to post new
discussion topics as you commun-icate throughout
the semester. To access the Distance
Education forum in OneStop, log in
at the following URL https://onestop.ecu.edu/onestop/ and click the
Community
tab
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Distance Education
Orientation Website
The
DE Orientation will take you step-by-step
through the process of how to get started taking
classes online. As you work through the
orientation, you will discover answers to
questions you may have such as: What is
distance education? Who is my
advisor, and how do I contact him/her? How do I
access course material? How do I get an email
account and DE
student card? http://author.ecu.edu/
cs-acad/DEOrientation/index.cfm |
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Pirate
Athletics
Here you will find links to campus
sports, Pirate Club, purchase tickets,
radio & television broadcast
information, history and records, traditions,
& more. http://www.ecupirates.com/ |
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~Welcome
to East Carolina
University~
Welcome
to the 2007 Fall Semester and another edition
of
D-ECU News -- the newsletter that will keep you
informed of university news, resources, and
announcements that affect the distance education
community. If you will be traveling to
campus to use ECU Libraries & computer labs,
be sure to read the information below about the
Distance Education Student
Cards.
Campus Leader
Feature
Meet
Our Chancellor ~
Chancellor
Steve Ballard, since his arrival in Greenville in June 2004, has
focused on measures designed to enhance East
Carolina
University’s
role as the University For North Carolina. On an
array of topics, from student success to research
productivity to athletics, he has emphasized
excellence and leadership.
While
leading the fastest-growing university in
North
Carolina
, and the one with the largest distance-education
program, Ballard is committed to providing
every student with excellent training in the
classroom, practical experiences in the community
and region, and the opportunity to develop
leadership skills. He has hired nationally known
leaders in athletics, research, finance, and
fund-raising. He has overseen a record-breaking
building boom on campus and the addition of over
400 new faculty positions.
Before joining
East Carolina as the university’s tenth chief
executive, Ballard served as provost at the
University
of Missouri
at Kansas
City.
Previous academic appointments had taken him from
Oklahoma
to the East Coast. For more information on
Chancellor Ballard :
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-admin/chancellor/Chancellor-Ballard.cfm |
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DE Student
Feature
Meet
Jennifer
Varney~
Distance Education
Student
In 2001
I was laid off from my manufacturing job
in
Greensboro
along with almost 3000 others.
I spent 10 years working dead-end
manual labor jobs with low pay, poor benefits and
constant instability. I
was newly divorced and had two school aged kids to
take care of. I
decided to go back to college and get an AAS
degree in Business Administration with the goal of
starting my own business. I
worked part time and went to school full time for
2 years.
By
the time I graduated with my AAS I knew I needed
to get a higher degree before I could obtain
financially adequate and sustainable
employment. I
also knew that it would take a lot longer for me
to build a business than I had initially
anticipated, and I needed real world work
experience and more knowledge of business
management theory first. I
enrolled in a four year university, taking evening
classes only and working full time during the
day.
While this seemed like an ideal situation
initially, it soon became an issue for my employer
and I struggled to keep jobs that would allow me
to leave to attend 4pm classes at
school.
After
three semesters of fighting to get the classes I
needed & struggling with child care
issues in the evenings, I was very frustrated, and
ready to quit school altogether.
That’s when I learned I could finish my
degree online at ECU instead. To
say that this program has been a life-saver for me
is understating the obvious!
The DE programs at ECU are the
best nationally accredited online degree programs
I have ever seen.
Being able to complete my assignments
online in my free time has opened up my job
availability, & allowed me to find my
dream job.
I
now work as a Buyer for Volvo Group NA, which is a
corporate purchasing position in a truly
international corporation. I
travel on a regular basis for my company,
including several international trips each
year.
There is no way I could have finished my
degree, or landed this position if I was still
struggling to meet the demands of face to face
classes!
I
will graduate with my BS in Business
Administration this fall, and start working on my
MBA at ECU through their online degree program in
the Spring of 2008. I
recommend this school and their DE program to
everyone I meet. I
know when I finish my MBA I will have a solid
education in Supply Chain Management, and several
years of experience in Purchasing, Logistics and
Business Administration that I never would have
received otherwise, and I will finally be in a
position to start building my own business, with
the confidence that I have a strong foundation of
knowledge, skill and experience behind
me. |
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Distance Education Student
Cards
Distance
Education Student Cards for the Fall 2007 semester
will be mailed to all distance education
students. You should receive your card by
September 15th. The
Distance Education Student Card grants access to
ECU computer labs and allows students to check
books out of the ECU libraries. Please note
that the Distance Education Student Card will not
provide access to the Student
Recreation
Center,
Student Health Services, Athletic events and other
activities that are available to on-campus
students because DE students do not pay these
additional university fees. The Distance
Education Student Cards are valid for one
semester and are mailed to your home
address. If your address has changed, you
will need to update your address through
OneStop https://onestop.ecu.edu/onestop/
in order to receive future cards. Please
contact Kim Wilson for replacement cards
or if you have not received your card by
September 15th at wilsonki@ecu.edu.
Using Your
Financial Aid Refund to Buy
Books
Currently,
there is not a system in place that will allow DE
students to directly use their financial aid
refund to purchase books from the book
store. Financial aid refunds are not
disbursed until after the first day of
class.
On the other hand, on-campus
students can purchase books with their "Onecard."
The Onecard is used as a photo ID that
provides on-campus students access to student
transit, athletic events, student health services,
etc. The card is also used as a means to
receive their financial aid refund to
purchase books at the book store. However,
campus students must personally appear at the
bookstore to purchase their books with this card.
It cannot be done online.
Campus
students pay additional fees for the
Onecard benefits that DE students do not pay. The
administration is working on this issue
to try and find a solution. We will notify
you before spring semester regarding this issue.
We are sorry for any
inconvenience. |
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Joyner
Library ~ Connecting with DE Students and
Faculty with New Tools and Services
Joyner
Library's distance education newsletter, DECOVE is still
available online. Look for
the fall 2007 issue. Past
issues are archived.
LibQual
2007 Survey
– To
help us learn more about how DE students
perceive & use library resources and
services, we administered LibQual+ to 6007
undergraduate & graduate students
enrolled in one or more online courses during
spring semester, 2007. If
you would like more information on the LibQual
Survey, please review DE Cove’s fall 2007
issue.
Getting
Books
Joyner
Library will send Distance Learning students
living
outside of Pitt County the
books you
need to do your research. Simply use the Joyner Library
Catalog to find the
titles you want and fill out an Interlibrary Loan
Request. Currently,
return postage is covered by the library. For more
information, see the Getting
Books web page.
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ECU
Distance Learning students may check out materials
from the libraries of any of
the
UNC campuses through the Cooperative
Borrowing program. ECU Distance Education students
will need to show their ECU Distance Education
student card issued by the university and a photo
ID at the other
library.
List of other UNC
Libraries.
We
have increased our resources & research
options for many students in search for full-text
journal articles.
Getting
Articles
Joyner
Library also has a new research tool
called One Search. You will
find this listed on the library homepage. Just
insert a search term & multiple databases
will be searched at once!
Use the E-Journal
Portal to see what journals are
available online. Citation
Linker will help
find articles when you have partial or full
citations. What if you
still can not find full text online? Request it
via ILLiad
and we will find it and send it to you for
free! Visit Joyner ILL
for more information.
Please
contact us
at any time for research assistance
through:
IM:
JoynerRef
Telephone: 252-328-6677 and
Email.
Attention
DE
Faculty:  If you are
teaching online classes this fall and are
interested in having tailored Online
Library Research Guides & or
pathfinder folders added to your Blackboard course
page(s), please contact the Joyner Library DE
Coordinator, Yolanda Hollingsworth, directly at hollingsworthy@ecu.edu
or
252-328-2259. We would
be happy to work with
you!!! |
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