Distance learning is rapidly becoming pervasive in every aspect of education. From elementary school through doctoral programs, information technology enables self-paced learning with some degree of distance from teaching professionals. Educators sometimes begin this online delivery system without fully examining the academic soundness of this approach. Other considerations are administrative m...

Most courses based on distance learning focus on the cognitive domain of learning. Because students are sometimes inattentive or tired, they may neglect the attention goal of learning. This study proposes an autodetection and reinforcement mechanism for the distance-education system based on the reinforcement teaching strategy. If a student is detected to be inattentive or fatigued, then the al...

Professor Scott Overmyer of Baker College, in a discussion list post, raised four points bearing on a question of interest to those involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL): Can Distance and Classroom Learning Be Increased? My answer: “YES” judging from the fact that pre/post testing in courses in Newtonian mechanics has demonstrated an approximately two-standard-deviation su...

Discussions about distance learning are not a novelty. In the last years, several systems to support learning were proposed and developed, some of them based on the Internet. For statistics teaching, as in other areas, there are many systems for distance learning in the web that only present a digital version of the traditional classes’ content. Besides of the information access, these systems ...

the potential of computers to support learning and teaching m almost all subject areas is now widely accepted. at ail levels of education computers aid teachers to enrich their learning/teaching environment. in the field of language education, especially english as a second/foreign language (esl/efl) computer-assisted learning has acted as an indirect boost to enhance language proficiency. whil...

This paper aims to update a method of understanding the domain in question. It is the outcome of a research carried out by a Working Group on Distance Education and e-Learning (GT-EADEL), based on the principles and initiatives stated by the executive board of the University of Minho’s Institute of Education. This study was based on the need to identify perceptions, concepts, teaching practices...