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Interaction in satellite-based corporate distance training.
(2002-01-01)
Maintaining an educated, high performance workforce has become a particularly daunting challenge in the highly volatile knowledge-based economy. A growing number of companies currently use one-way video, two-way audio ...
Faculty attitudes toward interactions in delivering undergraduate distance education.
(2001-01-01)
Interaction is a common theme in distance education. While distance learners, and the uses of various technologies and tools, have been studied extensively, faculty have received less attention in the literature. The purpose ...
Quality assurance in the in-service teacher education program in Northern Namibia: a case study.
(2003-01-01)
This study examined the in-service department of a college of education to find out the measures used for quality assurance. This four-year diploma program is offered to the unqualified and under-qualified teachers in ...
Factors affecting successful student completion in a career oriented program.
(2004-01-01)
Research has been conducted over the past several decades to review conceptual models, assessment instruments and other methods to discover factors and find solutions to high rates of lack of completion in distance education ...
Analysis of graduate student attitudes towards computer-mediated communication.
(2000-01-01)
Computer-Mediated Communication is a relatively new methodology in the arsenal of universities in their quest to educate graduate students. It has advantages and disadvantages, all documented in some detail in the prevailing ...
Application of Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf to Adult Literacy Instruction in the Hearing Community
(2006-04-28)
Illiteracy remains a serious problem in Canada with a significant proportion of the adult population still unable to read and write. Illiteracy is a particularly serious problem in rural areas because a variety of factors ...
Conversational audio in online distance education.
(2001-01-01)
This thesis explores the effectiveness of convenient audio in online education. Conversational audio is defined as structured, but not scripted, conversations between the instructor and colleagues, students, subject matters ...
Distance education and second language instruction: an analysis and recommendations for integration.
(2004-01-01)
The following thesis surveyed and examined the fields of distance education and Second Language Acquisition in order to illustrate key theories and assumptions of both fields. This thesis is a synthesis of relevant learning ...
Building Basic Skills for E-Learning: Adults With Developmental Disabilities Go Online
(2006-07-12)
Adults with developmental disabilities are often excluded from participating in a variety of online activities, including e-learning, which are part of everyday life in our digital, knowledge-based society. Numerous barriers ...
Learner perceptions of barriers in corporate online training.
(2003-01-01)
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the perceptions and experiences of corporate employees prior to, during, and at the conclusion of their first self-paced, asynchronous, web-based course. Previous studies on ...