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	October 2, 2007 IQAT™ Opens Benchmarking Group for Community Colleges In response to growing demand from members for more direct access to peer institutions, this month IQAT™ (the Interactive Quality Assessment Tool) introduced its first niche peer group, the Community College Benchmark Group (CCBG)....click here to read more.
	May 9, 2007 IQAT™ Members Drive Benchmarking for Quality Discussion Distance learning leaders gather strength in numbers as IQAT™ (eye • cat) prepares to host a powerful series of roundtable discussions focused on investigating benchmarking with nearly 50 Charter Member institutions....click here to read more.
	February 16, 2007 Distance Learning Leaders Address Increased Demand for Performance Measures Higher education institutions are looking for new ways to meet the changing demands of their students and the governing bodies that create education policies—the distance learning community is no exception...click here to read more.
	November 3, 2006 IQAT™ gets Wiki'd: Benchmarking Tool makes it on Wikipedia website Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on the Internet, published entries about IQAT™ from a source outside the benchmarking tool’s developers. IQAT™ appears under ...click here to read more.
	August 29 , 2006 IQAT™ TRAQS - Edition #2 IQAT™ is making traqs in the distance learning community! During a recent tour, a future subscriber said, "This is visionary! IQAT™ has the potential to have a true impact for our institution." IQAT™ has introduced a number of new features that will make it easier for subscribers to submit and view benchmarked data. The five sections of the survey have been...click here to read the entire newsletter.
	August 10 , 2006 IQAT™ is featured in The Greentree Gazette's Executive Briefing "Two years ago the participants at a meeting in Maine of the National University Telecommunications Network discussed the idea of measuring the quality of distance education. NUTN was established in 1982, and it presently involves 60 higher education institutions that have telecommunications networks and an interest in videoconferencing and distance learning." Click here to read more.
	July 17, 2006 IQAT™ TRAQS - Edition #1 Undoubtedly, distance learning administrators and faculty know that enrollment in online programs has increased. According to the Sloan Consortium, the number of students taking one or more courses online grew 18.2 percent in 2004, exceeding 2 million. Now, nearly two-thirds of all colleges offering face-to-face courses also offer online courses and a majority of institutions identify distance education as a critical long-term strategy. Click here to read the entire newsletter. (PDF)
	June 12, 2006 Quality Assessment for Distance Learning Leaders Just Got Easier - IQAT™ Debuts at NUTN 2006 In a move sure to alter the way distance education measures quality, the National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN), Hezel Associates and Cisco Systems today released an innovative tool for quality assessment. Click here to read more. (PDF)
	June 12, 2006 IQAT™ to Launch at NUTN 2006 Annual Conference IQAT™ launches at NUTN Annual Conference, June 12, 2006. Representatives from NUTN, Cisco, and Hezel Associates, will be on hand to introduce conference attendees to the power of IQAT™: a benchmarking tool for distance learning leaders. Recent studies have found that benchmarking for quality in distance learning remains inconsistent across post-secondary institutions. Conference attendees will participate in a live tour of IQAT™, a systematic web-based tool for measuring quality in distance learning.
	June 5, 2006 Follow the Distance Learning Leader How can higher education cope with escalating demands for institutional accountability? Ask the distance educators. Click here to read more. (PDF)

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