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At James Madison U., 'House Calls' Help Professors With Technology for Online Courses
By DAN CARNEVALE

Sarah E. Cheverton, manager of faculty-development services at James Madison University, helps run an extensive faculty-support system for the university's distance-education program. Among other services, her department offers a series of workshops and "instructional house calls" in which faculty members are taught to use various tools and computer programs. The university uses a course-management system from Blackboard that allows instructors to add a range of online components to their courses. ...

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