Distance Education

Features

• Emphasizing the Human Being in Distance Education

  Deborah Wetsit

  Distance learning offers unique challenges when it comes to building meaningful relationships between students and instructors.

• Designing the Tribal Virtual College of Tomorrow

  Tom Davis

  Bay Mills Community College President Martha McLeod examines the theories and technology behind rapidly expanding distance education offerings.

• Virtual Ridge Runners Scout Websites

  Lester Johnson

  Two doctoral students from the University of Montana participating in a cohort program, one on the Blood Reserve in Canada and the other on the Blackfeet Nation in the United States, navigated the variables of time and space appraising how culture was incorporated into randomly selected tribally controlled community colleges’ websites.

• North Dakota Spiritual Leaders Give Guidance for Distance Learning

  Christy Davis

  As colleges within the American Indian Higher Education Consortium struggle to bring their institutions into the technology era, the North Dakota tribal colleges are addressing an additional challenge–how to incorporate tribal culture into the courses transmitted on distance learning networks.

Editor's Essay

• Educating the Native Student at Distance

  Marjane Ambler

  Few subjects elicit as much heat in educational circles as distance education. While most educators value computers, many object to the idea that technology can solve all of our educational problems.

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Profile

• Mesteth Turned Love of Science into Career

  Candy Hamilton

  When Lloydell (Suzy) Mesteth attended Headstart, she taught her younger cousin all she learned as they played her favorite game—school. Mesteth’s mother, Evelyn “Sissy” Eaglebull,

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Resource Guide

• 10-3 Spring 1999 “Distance Education” Resource Guide

  Jim Ereaux

  When I try to see a faint star, I don’t look directly at the star. I look off to the side. I started looking for faint stars early in life,

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Research

• Cycle Starters: American Indian doctorates as role models

  Timothy Lintner

  In looking for ways to increase the American Indian presence in higher education, it may be time to tap a resource that, heretofore, has been underutilized. Through their mentoring and direct community involvement, American Indian doctorates can and do serve as role models.

• North Dakota Spiritual Leaders Give Guidance for Distance Learning

  Christy Davis

  As colleges within the American Indian Higher Education Consortium struggle to bring their institutions into the technology era, the North Dakota tribal colleges are addressing an additional challenge–how to incorporate tribal culture into the courses transmitted on distance learning networks.