With the increase in the demand of online education, especially for working people, there is a need for institutions that offer online education to identify, target, and market their services to people who are in need of furthering their education or who would be interested in using online education to advance their careers. The aim of this paper is to explore how Business Intelligence (BI) can...

The purpose of this article is to examine the foundational principles and practices of distance education in the context of recent developments in the areas of online learning. The point is made that online learning had its genesis apart from mainstream distance education. As a result, it is argued that distance education has not fully embraced the collaborative potential of online learning. Th...

In this paper, we consider the challenges for Physical Education Teacher (PETE) that were presented during COVID-19 pandemic in regard to preservice teachers’ knowledge and about movement their developing capability. Historically, learning as well has always been central physical education PETE. The question paper addresses is how teaching of capability are experienced by PETE educators teacher...

With recent increases in online enrollment, undergraduate students are far more likely to experience an online learning environment than they were in the past. While existing literature provides general insight into reasons why students may or may not prefer online instruction, it is unclear whether these preferences are shaped by student’s perceptions of online learning or actual experience wi...

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Online instruction is gaining an increasing presence due to the benefits associated with it, including the ability to consolidate education and training across geographical and time constraints, and the claim by many that online education and training is cost efficient. This paper provides a relatively concise and useful history of online learning, and a discussion of issues to be faced by the ...

Background. Today, online shopping has become one of the most important components of modern marketing that had both positive and negative consequences for customers. Objectives. The purpose of present research was to study the consequences of fear of identity theft in sport products online shopping from the perspective of physical education students. Methods. The present study is a descripti...

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the methodological and theoretical assumptions of interpretive research as proposed by Erickson (1986), based on the premises that Blumer (1969) posed for symbolic interactionism. A specific example of a conceptual framework for studying the major theoretical constructs identified in distance education research will be presented. Although this framework...