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Learning to Grow Well: Humanizing the Distance Learning Experience with Technology

I was just thinking that Learning to Grow well is not always easy. There are many disaster stories about organizations which have grown too fast for their own good. We are a small rural institution who is on the verge of not being small and as such have had to think about what all of this means. Much of this story is told in the video below and in my post :

Cost Savings, Economic Impact, Enterprise Capability and User…

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Added by Kent Brooks on March 22, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

What would I do with 10,000 MB of Bandwidth, The National Broadband Map and The Rural Urban Rift

I was just thinking that one of the main reasons I moved to Altus OK 14 years ago to take a position at Western Oklahoma State College was because of the bandwidth available through the the Oklahoma state network OneNet. I had been in in a situation where we had fought and struggled to get a 56K Frame Relay circuit. Many people…

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Added by Kent Brooks on February 21, 2011 at 12:38am — No Comments

The Buffalo Commons, Technological Regeneration and My America

I was just thinking that one of the things I have become since going to work at Western Oklahoma State College is an accidental grant writer. I have been fortunate to write and fund several USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine grants all over the Country. The text below is basically the tale we tell for each and every project. Essentially our projects are rural, poor and we weave a… Continue

Added by Kent Brooks on April 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — No Comments