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Membership Privilege - WAOE Logo

President Steve McCarty is delighted to announce that WAOE members who have paid dues or received waiver from dues in the current year may place WAOE's logo on their Web pages.  Here is the full wording of Steve's announcement, including the details for acessing the logo:

Use of the WAOE Logo as a Membership Privilege

Only WAOE members with dues currently paid or waived may exercise the membership privilege of placing the WAOE logo on their Web pages. The effect of following these directions is that a reduced size, light green WAOE logo will appear on your home page with a dark green caption indicating that you are a WAOE member. The logo is an active link, so that anyone clicking on it will be transported conveniently to the WAOE Opening Page. It is also programmed so that the logo is pulled from WAOE's Website whenever your Web page is downloaded. So all you need to do is:

Copy the HTML source code below and paste it into the source file for your home page, wherever you prefer it to appear on the Web page, pasting it somewhere below the HEAD </head> and before the BODY ends with </body></html>.

With HTML editing or authoring programs even a beginner should be able to find the source mode (that browsers read to determine the complete format of your Web page).  Selecting Source or Source Mode again from a pull-down menu takes you back to how the page generally appears to a browser, but the logo will not be seen until you upload the new Web page file to your Web server.

Here is the coding to copy and paste into the source file of your Web page:

<P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="http://www.waoe.org/">
<IMG SRC="http://www.waoe.org/waoeban3.gif"
BORDER="0" WIDTH="140" HEIGHT="43" NATURALSIZEFLAG="0"
ALIGN="BOTTOM"></A><BR><B><FONT COLOR="#3B724D"
SIZE=-1>WAOE Member</FONT></B></P>

Debate on Commercialising Online Course Delivery

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Colloquy service is currently running an important discussion about the possible impact on the relationship between students and faculty if some universities and liberal arts colleges take up the offer from a new distance education company to pay the institutions for courses which the company would put online.  We are giving prominence to the announcement of the discussion item because it concerns issues very close to the objectives and interests of WAOE, and we urge all members - not just those directly engaged in higher education - to have their say.

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a new distance-education company has approached a number of elite liberal-arts colleges and Ivy League universities to propose an arrangement in which the company would put selected courses online and pay the institutions $250,000 per course.  At least three institutions -- Amherst and Williams Colleges and Brown University -- are seriously considering the offer, and some faculty members worry that the arrangements could significantly change the nature of faculty-student interaction at the institutions.  The Chronicle is sponsoring an online discussion about the issues raised this company's proposal, and The Chronicle invites members of this list to read the story and join the discussion at: http://www.chronicle.com/colloquy/2000/eliteu/eliteu.htm.