Learner Views about a Distance Education Course

Rethinking learner support in distance education

Contents List of figures and tables List of contributors Introduction 1 Constructivism or Confucianism? We have the technology, now what shall we do with it?

Dialogue in a distance education physics course

This study investigated the kinds of dialogues utilized by Open University students while studying an intermediate level physics course. Research objectives were twofold: to document what dialogue types, mediated through which resources, were (1) generally utilized by students as they learned; and (2) were specifically utilized by students to overcome conceptual difficulties. It was found that ...

Distance Learning a Place for Application of Independence Learner Theory

Introduction: With the arrival of new communication technologies, the process of learning from the teacher to the learner’s pivot with emphasis on the centrality of the learner has an independence movement and in determining the methods of teaching and assessment practices. On this basis the independence of the learner is one of the fundamental concepts of remote education system. The aim ...

Learner outcomes in an asynchronous distance education environment

This research investigated student outcomes in a web-based distance learning environment characterized by asynchronous electronic communications between student and teacher. We employed two dominant theories}the theory of planned behavior and innovation diffusion theory}to study student reactions to web-based distance education. We hypothesized that student perceptions of the technology are pos...

Perception Differences About Participating in Distance Education