Richard Discenza

Richard Discenza is a professor of Production Management and Information Systems in the College of Business and Administration at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He received his BSF in Forestry from Northern Arizona University, an MBA from Syracuse University, and a PhD in Management from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Discenza was formerly dean of the college where he helped establish and oversaw the development of a distance MBA program. His current research focuses on business process reengineering, distance education, project management and supply chain management. He has published numerous articles in professional and academic journals and is a member of APICS, the Academy of Management, and PMI.

Publications

Distance Learning in 21st Century Education
Distance Learning in 21st Century Education
Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza, Murray Turoff. © 2009. 9 pages.
Colleges and universities around the country are scrambling to keep pace with the innovations in technology to engage a generation of students that come to campus with laptops...
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Murray Turoff, Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2009. 8 pages.
What is happening to higher education? There is a search for increasing the effectiveness of learning and expanding educational opportunities by using a combination of...
Technology's Role in Distance Education
Technology's Role in Distance Education
Murray Turoff, Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2008. 10 pages.
Learning is enhanced by the physical and social technologies typically used in distance education. Students in distance programs typically have access to tools that allow them to...
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Murray Turoff, Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2008. 10 pages.
What is happening to higher education? There is a search for increasing the effectiveness of learning and expanding educational opportunities by using a combination of...
How Distance Programs will Affect Students, Courses, Faculty and Institutional Futures
How Distance Programs will Affect Students, Courses, Faculty and Institutional Futures
Murray Turoff, Richard Discenza, Carolin Howard. © 2008. 15 pages.
Designed properly, distance education classes can be at least as effective and, in some ways, even more effective than face-to-face courses. The tools and technologies used for...
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Innovation and Technology for 21st Century Education
Murray Turoff, Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2005. 9 pages.
What is happening to higher education? There is a search for increasing the effectiveness of learning and expanding educational opportunities by using a combination of...
Technology's Role in Distance Education
Technology's Role in Distance Education
Murray Turoff, Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2005. 7 pages.
Learning is enhanced by the physical and social technologies typically used in distance education. Students in distance programs typically have access to tools that allow them to...
Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning
Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning
Caroline Howard, Karen D. Schenk, Richard Discenza. © 2004. 368 pages.
Distance Learning and University Effectiveness: Changing Educational Paradigms for Online Learning addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with information and...
How Distance Programs will Affect Students, Courses, Faculty and Institutional Futures
How Distance Programs will Affect Students, Courses, Faculty and Institutional Futures
Murray Turoff, Richard Discenza, Caroline Howard. © 2004. 20 pages.
Designed properly, distance education classes can be at least as effective and, in some ways, even more effective than face-to-face courses. The tools and technologies used for...
The Design and Management of Effective Distance Learning Programs
The Design and Management of Effective Distance Learning Programs
Richard Discenza, Caroline Howard, Karen D. Schenk. © 2002. 312 pages.
As computers, telecommunications technology and other electronic media have reduced the constraints imposed by geographic location, increasing numbers of organizations are using...
The Emergence of Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Revised Group Decision Support System Typology with Empirical Results
The Emergence of Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Revised Group Decision Support System Typology with Empirical Results
Caroline Howard, Richard Discenza. © 2000. 14 pages.
Although distance learning is not a new phenomenon, recently there has been a huge jump in the number of organizations offering on-line instruction. The National Center for...