Welcome New Members!

Volume 1 No 9 20 July 1999

Welcome to the website of WEB -- the World Association for Online Education Electronic Bulletin. Please use the links in the leftside frame to access the contents of this issue.
Comments and feedback can be sent to robert.luke@uleth.ca

APOLOGY!!!

We apologise for the very late apearance of this issue of WEB.  Publication was held over for a couple of excellent reasons.

Partly, the delay made it possible to link some of the content to the newly established online WAOE Orientation Course (as well as to include an announcement about arrangements for paying membership dues), and so - you'll be glad to know - reduce considerably the size of the issue as originally drafted.

The more significant reason for the delay, however, was the unavailability of WEB designer/Web designer extraordinaire, Robert Luke, for a couple of weeks while he finalised plans for getting married, got married, and spent a short honeymoon in the Rockies.  Congratulations, Robert, to you and your wife.  And now, enough frivolity - back to work, please!

WEB will resume its twice per month schedule from the first Monday or so in August.
 

ANNOUNCEMENT - MEMBERSHIP DUES

As already announced in several forums, WAOE has established a membership fee of $US10 per annum, commencing in July 1999.  WAOE will count each year of membership on a July to June basis.  Please read carefully through the procedure which has been established for the 1999/2000 membership period, and use whichever payment method is the most appropriate for you:

After the annual meetings, it is time for members to pay their annual membership registration fee (WAOE dues) to help support WAOE's services and activities over the following fiscal year. This fee is due before September 1, 1999. There are several payment options currently available and detailed below.

Thank you for supporting WAOE,

Jenna Seehafer
WAOE Treasurer
 

1) You may pay your membership fee online by VISA or Mastercard from any where in the world, courtesy of WAOE member John Spiers and LearnOnline, by signing up for the WAOE Orientation beginning from the following URL:

http://noncredited.net/wileyccc/worasofonedo.html

NOTE: The WAOE Orientation is still being developed, but there are already some materials available to members. Signing up for this
orientation is the same as paying the WAOE Annual Member's Registration Fee (whether you ever view the orientation or not), and once you have registered for this "course," you will be invited to use the orientation and its resources during the period of your membership. All fees for the orientation go to WAOE.

Once you reach the pay station at the LearnOnline site, you may select the number of $10 "units" you wish to have deducted from your bank card.

1 unit  = $10 = one year WAOE membership
2 units = $20 = two year WAOE membership
3 units = $30 = three year WAOE membership
any amount over $30 will be taken to be a 3 year WAOE membership plus a donation to WAOE.

You will receive an automated receipt after payment has been recorded.
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2) You may send your WAOE 99/00 Annual Membership Registration fee* to the WAOE Treasurer:

--Members who live anywhere in the world may send their WAOE Membership Registration as an international money order (payable in US dollars).

--If you live in Australia, Brazil, or Japan, you may wish to consider other payment options described in #3, #4, & #5 below.

--Those members living in the US may send a personal check or money order.

For payments in US dollars,

$10 = one year WAOE membership
$20 = two year WAOE membership
$30 = three year WAOE membership
any amount over $30 will be taken to be a 3 year WAOE membership plus a donation to WAOE
 

Write a check or money order payable in US dollars to

Jenna Seehafer, WAOE Treasurer

Write "WAOE 99/00 Membership Registration fee* " on the check at the bottom left or along the top.

If you pay more than one year's dues at a time, remember that you still must renew  the registration form each year (to gather changes in
address, email, associations, and interests).

Send your check or money order by postal mail with a slip of paper containing

your name
address (if that is not on the check) and
your email address

to

Jenna Seehafer, WAOE Treasurer
432 K Street
Rio Linda,  CA  95673-3419

If you do not receive an email receipt within two weeks after your fees should have arrived, please contact me by email <seehafer@csus.edu>.
 

*US members may want to call the Annual WAOE Membership Registration Fees "dues" if they intend to claim tax deductions for them. WAOE uses the terms "fees" and "dues" interchangeably. Your email receipt will include the EIN number.

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3) If you live in Australia, you may send your WAOE Membership Registration Fee  payable in Australian dollars to

David Wyatt, WAOE
Box 1121, Blackwood Post Office
Blackwood SA 5051

Write your cheque or money order to

David Wyatt, WAOE

Please include a slip of paper in the envelope containing

your name
address (if that is not on the cheque) and
your email address

For payments in Australian dollars,

$AUS15 = one year WAOE membership
$AUS30 = two year WAOE membership
$AUS45 = three year WAOE membership
any amount over $AUS45 will be taken to be a 3 year WAOE membership plus a donation to WAOE

You should receive a receipt by email within two weeks after your fees should have arrived.  If you have not received a receipt within that
time, please contact David Wyatt <dwyatt@camtech.net.au> or Jenna Seehafer <seehafer@csus.edu>

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4) If you live in Brazil and wish to pay your Waoe Membership Registration Fee in Reais, please contact

Roberto Andrea Mueller <rmueller@mail.ufv.br>

to arrange payment.

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5) If you live in Japan and wish to pay your WAOE Membership Registration Fee in yen, you may transfer your fee to Steve McCarty's
postal account:

"To send dues or donations to WAOE in yen from within Japan, go to any
post office and get a postal transfer form (furikae no haraikomisho). On
the top left write the account number (koza bango) 01670-2-10300, and at
the top right fill in the amount you are sending. On the left side of
the next line write Steve McCarty. Then in the wide middle space write
the purpose (WAOE Membership Registration Fee). In the bottom left
box write your name, address, and telephone number.  Then pay that
amount plus 60 yen at the window, not for stamps but for banking
transactions, open only until about 4 p.m."

Steve McCarty, President of WAOE

For WAOE Membership Registration Fee in yen, pay the following amounts,

1250 yen = one year WAOE membership
2500 yen = two year WAOE membership
3750 yen = three year WAOE membership
any amount over 3750 yen will be taken to be a 3 year WAOE membership plus a
donation to WAOE

WAIVER OF MEMBERSHIP FEES/DUES - POLICY

WAOE has adopted the following policy on waiver of/exemption from payment of membership fees/dues for the 1999/2000 period.  This statement is summarised from the official Minutes of the Planning and Finance Committee for April 1999.  If you wish to read the original resolution as it was subsequently adopted by the Board of Directors, go to http://www2.ec.erau.edu:8080/read?558,24  (If you cannot get to this page, go to the WAOE WebBoard and login by entering the first part of your email address (before @), and enter the password "waoe," without the quotes.  If you stil have difficulty, contact the WebBoard Manager, Mike Warner.)

All members of WAOE are expected to pay the $US10 membership fee or dues from July 1 1999, unless they have applied for and received waiver.  There are no provisions for waiver of fees or dues to be applied automatically by or on behalf of the WAOE Board of Directors; all waivers must be applied for by individual members.

Members may initiate requests to the Membership Officer for waiver of fees on one or more of the following grounds:

They are providing service to the Association (eg convening a Committee or OCREW or managing a project);

The costs of funds transfer or currency exchange would be excessive in relation to the fee amount of $US10 *;

They are in a situation of severe financial hardship.

* As an alternative to seeking waiver of fees on the basis of excessive funds transfer or currency exchange costs, members may apply to have this expenditure applied to any future costs they might incur for participation in WAOE activities over the next two years (eg the online professional development course being developed by Nick Bowskill).

Normally, applications will be considered by the Membership Officer in terms of the policy as summarised here, and in consultation, if necessary, with the Treasurer or with the full Board of Directors.

WAOE will accept at face value any member's statement of hardship or excessive transfer/conversion fees, and we will make a standardized reply emphasizing that the service-in-lieu will be the sole recourse for any future application for waiver of fees.  All service-in-lieu requests will be confirmed by the applicable Committee Chair or OCREW Convener or WAOE Coordinating Ring member.

In the event that a member's initial application for waiver of fees or dues is not accepted, the member will have the right to seek a review of his/her application by the full Board of Directors.  Such members will be advised of this right and the process to be followed as the occasion arises.
 

To apply for waiver of fees/dues, send an email message to the Membership Officer.  For convenience, applicants may copy/cut and paste the following text into their email message:

I wish to apply for waiver of the WAOE membership fee/dues for the 1999/2000 period.

My application is based on the following ground(s):

I am providing service to the Association;

The costs of funds transfer or currency exchange would be excessive;

I am in a situation of severe financial hardship.

Please strike through whichever ground(s) are NOT applicable.

In support of my application I wish to present the following information:

Please insert an appropriate statement here, keeping it as brief as possible.