The Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree is growing in popularity among a number of higher education institutions throughout the world as a distance education graduate program. This paper offers an overview of program design and development strategies that promote successful distance delivery of MPH programs. Design and development challenges are discussed in terms of type of distance deliver...

A project to create a lifelong learning community among health sciences library and information professionals by demonstrating the potential for using complementary technologies to provide access to a full range of educational experiences as recommended in Platform for Change, the Medical Library Association's educational policy statement, is described. The cooperative project brings together t...

Araştırma 2019-2020 Bahar Dönemi’nde Anadolu’da bulunan bir vakıf üniversitesinde uzaktan eğitim lisansüstü programında öğrenim gören 42 katılımcı ile yürütülmüştür. Bu çalışmanın amacı, öğrencilerin almış oldukları ilgili görüşlerinin değerlendirilmesidir. Çalışma kapsamında nitel araştırma tekniklerinden durum çalışması kullanılmıştır. Çalışmada elde edilen veriler araştırmacılar tarafından h...

This article reports findings of a meta-analytical study of research on distance education. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that affect the effectiveness of distance education. The results show that although the aggregated data of available studies show no significant difference in outcomes between distance education and face-to-face education as previous research reviews sugg...

This study examined relationships between students’ perceptions of course-related interaction and their course satisfaction within the learner-centered paradigm in distance education. A Students’ Perceived Interaction Survey (SPIS) instrument was developed to examine nine separate hypotheses about the nature of course-related interaction. A volunteer sample of 855 students from the 949 students...

Four models of descriptive characteristics (Demographic, Experiential, Motivational, Inhibitory) were examined using discriminant function analysis for Distance Education (DE) and On-campus students. Of 240 targeted students (120 DE and 120 On-Campus), 174 responded to a questionnaire identifying characteristics of students who enroll in DE. Using a Demographic model only 61.5% of the sample wa...

The purpose of this study is to develop computer aided instruction courseware for introductory statistics and to examine the effectiveness of this type of instruction for schooling. Following the theory of educational technology, statistics is a subject area that needs CAI for university students. The courseware of statistics developed meets this need. Using CAI, students not only receive tutor...

Distance education and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often false short of what it attempts to accomplish some of the short comings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with administration, instructional methods, or students. This article provides de...

This paper discusses the influence of communication modalities and social aspects on the development of virtual collaborative distance education environments. We based this discussion on the use and development of TelEduc, a virtual distance education environment that has been developed since 1996 and through which many courses have been supported. We have used participatory design on its devel...

The paper provides a review of adaptive and intelligent technologies in a context of Web-based distance education. We analyze what kind of technologies are available right now, how easy they can be implemented on the Web, and what is the place of these technologies in large-scale Web-based education.