AAA CPE Workshops:   Technologies in Education Updates
Bob Jensen at Trinity University
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen

Definitions:

Distributed Education = Distance Education = McLearn Education
(not following Chris Dede's distinctions)

Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/255wp.htm 

• Uniform Pace versus Discretionary Pace

• Total versus partial ALN

Synchronous Learning Networks (SLN)

• Virtual Classrooms

• Instant Replays

Table of Contents

e-Education:   Partnerings Save the Day
e-Learning:  Emerging Pedagogies
e-Research:  New Research Opportunities
e-Technology:  Emerging Technologies
e-Publishers:  A History of Failed Ventures
e-CPA Review:  Updates on Commercial CPA Exam Software
e-Peep:  Peeking Out From Behind Our Campus Bunkers
e-Sharing:  Some Free Cases from Bob Jensen

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e-Education:  Partnerings Save the Day:

• Go to e-Education Updates

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e-Learning:  Emerging Pedagogies

• Traditional Versus Fishnet Learning
  
  
• Go to e-Learning Updates

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e-Research:  New Research Opportunities

• You can download and analyze radio telescope analysis software and data. Scientists are giving everyone an opportunity to be the first to discover intelligent life far from Mother Earth. See http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/
  
  
• EdGateway - online communities for educators and researchers.
       http://www.edgateway.net/
  
  
• Online databases
  Lycos has 8,000 databases that are only a few clicks away
            http://dir.lycos.com/Reference/Searchable_Databases/
  
  
• Tax Research Will Never Be the Same
       Go to Tax Helpers

• Tools for Finding Indexed Accounting Research http://www.rutgers.edu/Accounting/raw/aaa/facdev/research/indexed.htm

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e-Technology:  Emerging Technologies

• Go to e-Technology Updates

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e-Publishers:  A History of Failed Ventures

• Online publishing becomes a cottage industry   --- The Clash of the Titans
  
  
• McGraw-Hill World University is a "Small. Small World" 
       Go to McGraw-Hill NRI
  
  
• Irwin's CUBE Gets Crushed by a Nittany Lion
       Go to Penn State 
       Go to Irwin
  
  
• Business Core on a Single CD  
       Go to Multimedia Products
  
  
• A Trash Can Full of Huge Investments in Bad CDs  
  
  
• The Saga of HyperGraphics Corporation and CyberClass
        
• Cybertext Interactive Online Texts and Testing 
       Go to Cybertext Site
  
  
• MHLA's Quest for Value Added
       Go to MHLA

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e-CPA Review:  Updates on Commercial CPA Exam Software

• Becker Eats Up and Spits Out Convisor-Duffy --- Marketing Over Matter
  
• Gliem Goes Wal-Mart
  
• Bisk Goes Gucci

Gleim's CPA Exam Preparation software is available as a free academic site license to colleges and universities. Students who use the free online campus network materials may also purchase the Gleim books and software for a discounted price of $100. http://www.gleim.com/ 

Becker reports only 12% candidates sitting for the CPA examination pass it on the first go around http://www.accountingstudents.com/toolbox/cramtime/ The Becker prep course uses a lot of video presented in classes given in many cities across the U.S.

Micromash has a $595 price to individuals, but I could not find any information about a site license at http://www.micromash.com/.

Because of the multimedia and some other features, I prefer Bisk's TotalTape multimedia CPA package and frequently demo it in my technology road shows. Its site license is $750 on a campus. A student or former student can get it for $375 or $475 depending upon whether their campus or alma mater has a site license. http://www.bisk.com/.

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e-Peep:  Peeking Out From Behind Our Campus Bunkers

• Start Keeping Up With Accounting Education News
        Go to Online Accounting Education News
  
  
• A Revolution in Auditing and Financial Reporting in Real Time
        Go to Online Financial Reporting Updates
  
  
• New Investment and Management Decision Revolutions
        Go to Online e-Commerce Updates
  
  
• New Tax Research Resources
         Go to Online Tax Resource Updates
  
  
• Reduced Geographical Comparative Advantage --- A Global World
  
  
• New Markets in Life-Long Learning
  
  
• Less Protectionism and More TQM
  
  
• One-Size-Fits-All Diplomas Do Not Fit Needs of 21st Century
  
  
• Some Curriculum Imagination --- No More Smoke Stacks and Turf Fence
        Go to Penn State CUBE 
        Brigham Young University AECC Innovations
  
  
• Times Are Ripe for Innovation
        AAA Innovation Awards
  
  
• More Sharing --- AAA's Accounting Coursepage Exchange
        Go to ACE

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e-Sharing: Free Cases From Bob Jensen

SFAS 133 and IAS Cases http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5341/caseans/000index.htm

WebTrust Cases
Recall that I previously provided you with some Web Trust cases without case solutions at http://WWW.Trinity.edu/rjensen/acct5342/262wp/262case1.htm . You can now link to the solutions from the cases themselves. Also see Jensen, Howland, and Sidlinger solutions at http://www.aicpa.org/members/div/career/edu/caselist.htm#98 .