Telecommunications & Education
The mission of the Telecommunications & Education Committee is to establish dialogue with key partner organizations and state government leaders exploring opportunities for enhancing the education and telecommunications environment in rural Missouri.
Chair: James K. Tice
Missouri State University
Tele: 417.836.4722
Email: jkt302t@MissouriState.edu
Meeting Schedule
Committee Members
Missouri Distance Learning Initiative
The purpose of the Missouri Distance Learning Initiative is to develop policy and procedures by which distance learning promotes student performance through high standards, rigorous curriculum and qualified teachers for all students. Its goal is to create a policy framework for Missouri that promotes and facilitates the use of distance learning to enhance the educational opportunities and promote high performance for traditional and non-traditional students. To that end, the Missouri Rural Development Partners (MRDP) and Missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA) joined efforts to facilitate a process that will help guide distance learning development in our state.
At the November 29, 2005 MRDP Rural Education Symposium, the Missouri Distance Learning Initiative Task Force issued their Interim Report. To view the report, please click here: INTERIM REPORT [The Interim Report is viewable using Adobe Reader. Click here to download Adobe Reader software]
The MDLI Task Force welcomes your comments and reactions to the Interim Report on the MRDP Bulletin Board. To visit the MRDP Bulletin Board, please click here: BULLETIN BOARD
A Distance Learning in Missouri Blog has been created to continue the dialogue on this issue. The Blog is an open forum to seek information, opinions, applications, barriers, and solutions for implementing distance learning as a classroom utility in all Missouri K-12 classrooms. To access the Blog, please click here: BLOG [The Blog is operated at a third-party site. The views and opinions expressed in the Blog are not necessarily those of MRDP, its Board of Directors or partner organizations]