{"id":3485,"date":"2014-07-31T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2014-07-31T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:15:16","slug":"my-1-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/my-1-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"My 1 Year Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n<p>Greetings!  I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for this incredible first year in CAT as Xavier's Distance Education Coordinator.  I have learned so much and feel so privileged to be part of such an extraordinary team.  CAT has an exciting calendar of events and workshops for the upcoming academic year and I'm looking forward to presenting a few as well as participating in them.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to look back at this past year or to look around at the current state of distance education at Xavier, but I prefer to use the opportunity to look beyond our campus instead.  My professional reading has led me to a positive report on the state of distance education in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearning-africa.com\/\">The eLearning Africa Report 2014<\/a> contains several interesting articles, from a retrospective of Nelson Mandela's contributions in the field of education to a focus on distance education in three arenas--agriculture, health and tourism.  55 countries in Africa are included in the various data analyses.  I highly recommend the editorial at the beginning in order to give you an idea of the scope and fairly optimistic tone of the report.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xagJjrgt8Aw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>With the beginning of the fall semester right around the corner, I'm busily making preparations for our faculty and students but I'm glad that I took the time to learn about our distance education colleagues in Africa and the hope and vision they have for the future and their students.  I believe I'll celebrate my future anniversaries by \"looking outward\" as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols Greetings! I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for this incredible first year in CAT as Xavier's Distance Education Coordinator. I have learned so much and feel so privileged to be part of such an extraordinary team. CAT has an exciting calendar of events and workshops for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/my-1-year-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"My 1 Year Anniversary!\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-Ud","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2366,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/national-distance-learning-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":3485,"position":0},"title":"National Distance Learning Week","author":"Karen Nichols","date":"November 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Next week (Nov 11-15) is National Distance Learning Week. 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