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The Isolation Of Online Adjunct Faculty And Its Impact On Their Performance
(2011-05-11)
Using a grounded-theory, qualitative research approach, this thesis examines the experiences of 28 adjunct faculty members at Beckwith University, exploring their views on whether periodically meeting face to face with ...
Informal learning: A study of advocacy groups and their use of technologies
(2006-12-05)
Informal learning, now greatly supported by information and communication technology, is an area of interest for research. Researchers examine learning outside of formal structures; examples include workplace learning, ...
Attention deficit disorder in adults and distance education.
(1998-01-01)
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) affects not only children but adults; one third to one half of children with ADD do not outgrow this disorder. The number of adults with ADD (ADDults) will increase as the children diagnosed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Supporting mentoring relationships through distance technology.
(2002-01-01)
The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of mentoring and the reasons why individuals seek mentoring relationships, and to examine how mentoring may be supported through distance education technology. This study ...
Relationships among transactional distance variables in asynchronous computer conferences : A correlational study.
(2004-01-01)
The purpose of this exploratory study with quantitative data was to examine the relationships, in the context of computer-mediated asynchronous conferences, among indicators for the main variables in Moore’s Theory of ...