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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 ...
Women, Distance Education and Solitude: A Feminist Postmodern Narrative of Women's Responses to Learning in Solitude.
(2004-01-01)
There is the feminist assumption that connections and relations are the primary method of learning for women as opposed to solitary knowledge-building. In spite of the many articles that assert that distance education is ...
Audio teleconferencing: examination of instructional strategies for teachers of adult learners.
(2004-01-01)
This thesis examines instructional strategies available to teachers of students enrolled in college-level audio teleconferencing courses delivered by distance education. Using the techniques of qualitative research, this ...
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 ...
Environmental Literacy and Distance Learning: A Window to the Future of Education in Ontario
(2006-08-10)
Increasingly, scholars claim that formal education fails to provide for either the current or future needs of our society and, because of this, the field of education finds itself is at a crossroads. During the last two ...
A distance delivery model to improve accessibility to post-diploma baccalaureate level dental hygiene education.
(2000-01-01)
Dental hygiene practice is grappling with change as it adapts to the rapidly evolving health care delivery system, and dental hygiene education must respond to the changing needs of its graduates. Dental hygienists and the ...
Valuing perspectives: a grounded theory of mentoring in a distance education environment.
(2001-01-01)
The majority of research on mentoring that has been conducted in academic, business, and health care settings involves examining supportive relationships that have been cultivated in a face-to- face environment. This thesis ...
Factors Influencing the Process of Critical Thinking Among Health Professionals During Computer Conferencing: A Case Study
(2005-06-17)
Despite the growing amount of research evidence regarding effective clinical interventions, rehabilitation health professionals face many barriers in applying this new information to practice. Computer conferencing among ...
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 ...
In transition: the journey of adult educators from traditional teaching into teaching online.
(2003-01-01)
As adult educators travel the asynchronous, online frontier they face many exciting challenges and opportunities. The realities facing adult educators, new to teaching online, include learning new technologies, adapting ...