Critical Reflections on Distance Education

Reflections on a distance education experiment in DSP

Distance Education is becoming an increasingly important means of reaching a wider variety of traditional and non-traditional students and of developing unique educational partnerships between universities. In an e ort to assist engineering departments just beginning to pursue distance education, the authors re ect on an innovative four year experiment in Internet based distance education invol...

Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education

In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for granted, with schools proving slower to change their lesson plans than they were to fit computers in th...

Critical Reflections on Regulation

Critical Success Factors for Distance Education Programs

INTRODUCTION Distance education is playing an ever-growing role in the education industry. As such, it is prudent to explore and understand driving conditions that underlie this growth. Understanding these drivers and their corresponding concerns (Table 1) can help educators in the distance education field better prepare for the industry.

Interaction in Distance Education: The Critical Conversation

postal service, Anna Tickner changed forever the way instruction was delivered. For the first time, students and instructor were separated by both time and distance. Although the delivery system was “cutting edge” the teaching model remained that of self-directed, individual learning. Ms. Tickner’s lessons and those of numerous subsequent correspondence schools offered instruction that was tota...