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The e-Education Institute embraces the vision of Penn State University's e-Education Council: to strive to be a university in which information technology and pedagogical scholarship enrich teaching and learning for every student and faculty member. With this in mind, the e-Education Institute community utilizes a variety of platforms for sharing its rich experience, growing understandings and expertise.
As stated within our own Strategic Plan, e-education has the potential to enrich teaching and learning by making courses more active, integrated, reflective, engaging, inclusive, accessible, and individualized. The works cited below highlight some of the work the e-Education Institute community members have contributed to this enrichment of teaching and learning.
DiBiase, D. (accepted for publication pending revision) The Impact of Increasing Enrollment on Faculty Workload and Student Satisfaction Over Time. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks.
DiBiase, D. and H. Rademacher (in press) Scaling Up: Faculty Workload, Class Size, and Student Satisfaction in a Distance Learning Course on Geographic Information Science. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
Mathews, J. P., Spielvogel, E., Wherley, M., DiBiase, D., and Pisupati, S. Online teaching of "energy & the environment". in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. 2003. Nashville, TN. http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm
DiBiase, D. (2003) On Accreditation and the Peer Review of Geographic Information Science Education. Journal of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association 15:1, pp. 7-14. (http://www.urisa.org/Journal/Vol15No1/Dibiase.pdf)
DiBiase, D. (2000) Is Distance Teaching More Work or Less? American Journal of Distance Education 14:3, pp. 6-20.
DiBiase, D. (2000) Is Distance Education a Faustian Bargain? Journal of Geography in Higher Education 24:1 (March), pp. 130-135.
Pisupati, S., Mahan, W., DeLuca, M., and Gutowski, M., "Development of Highly Interactive, Online Course on Energy Conservation: Learning Strategies Used and Experience Gained." Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the 113th American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, Chicago, IL., June 18-21, 2006.
Pisupati, S., Mathews, J. P., DiBiase, D., and Scaroni, A. W. An assessment of active and project based learning in energy conservation education for non-technical students. in Proceedings of the 2004 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. 2004. http://www.asee.org/about/events/conferences/search.cfm
Johnson, Glenn. "e-Portfolios: Two Approaches for Transforming Curriculum and Promoting Student Learning" EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, 2004.
Pisupati, S., Mathews, J. P., and Scaroni, A. W. Energy Conservation Education for Non-Engineering Students and Effectiveness of Active Learning Components. in American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference. 2003. Nashville, TN.
Wright, D., D. DiBiase, K. Foote, K. Kemp, and C. Pancake (2001). Distance Education in GIScience. White paper. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (http://dusk.geo.orst.edu/disted)
McNitt, Andrew S. and Johnson, Glenn. (2001) Active Learning Through Distance Education: Design and Implementation of Turfgrass Soil Laboratory. International Turfgrass Society Research Journal. 9:91-94.
DiBiase, D. (1996) Rethinking Laboratory Education for an Introductory Course on Geographic Information. Cartographica 33:4, pp. 61-72.
Mathews, J. P., Luck, A., Pisupati, S. V. and DiBiase, D. "How to succeed in an online class: The seven things students need to know" The 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, Orlando, 2004, accepted.
King, E. (2004) Making the Most Appropriate Online Choice". GIS Educator, Spring 2004, pp.6-7. (http://www.esri.com/library/newsletters/giseducator/gised_spring04.pdf)
Mathews, J. P., Haughton, N. A., DiBiase, D., and Pisupati, S. For an Online Course Encompassing "Traditional Students": How, Where, and When Students Work and Engage with the Course Material. in Frontiers in Education Conference. 2004. Savannah, Georgia. http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2004/sessions/F1D.htm
Mathews, J. P., Presentation: "Engaging Students online: Tools, tricks, and bribes in EGEE 101". 2003. http://tlt.its.psu.edu/fmc/teach/archive/media/mathews2003/index.html
DiBiase, D., with contributions by ten others. (2002) Using e-Portfolios at Penn State to Enhance Student Learning: Status, Prospects, and Strategies. e-Education Institute, The Pennsylvania State University (http://www.e-education.psu.edu/portfolios/e-port_report.shtml)
Howard, D.L. and D. DiBiase (1999) World Regions Interactive. CD-ROM. A game in which students associate annotated photographs with locations by creating custom thematic regions using the GIS operation map overlay. Saunders College Publishing.
DiBiase, D. (2001) Understanding Geographic Data: Environmental Systems Research Institute Virtual Campus (http://campus.esri.com).
DiBiase, D. (1999) Evoking the Visualization Experience in Computer-Based Geography Education. In Raper, J. and Camara, A. (eds) Spatial Multimedia and Virtual Reality. Taylor and Francis.
DiBiase, D., M. Wherley, H. King, and T. Bell (1999) Geosciences in Action: Virtual Internships in Geology. CD-ROM. Simulated internships in for students in undergraduate courses in Introductory Physical Geology. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Wherley, M., J. Cupp and D. DiBiase (1998) Human Geography in Action. CD-ROM component of the text by M. Kuby, J. Harner, and P. Gober. Interactive assignments for students in undergraduate courses in Introductory Human Geography. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Krygier, J.B., C. Reeves, D. DiBiase and J. Cupp (1997) Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Multimedia Resources for Geography and Earth Science Education. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 21:1, pp. 1739.
DiBiase, D., M. Wherley and J. Acee (1996). New Media Labs for Physical Geography of the Global Environment. CD-ROM. Computer-assisted learning activities for undergraduate courses in Introductory Physical Geography. John Wiley & Sons Inc.