In a traditional course, many faculty create course packs, a collection of journal articles and book chapters the students purchase at the bookstore. Someone at the university is responsible for obtaining permissions from publishers for using this material for educational purposes. In an online course, instructors may want to make these materials available to the students in a digital format. D...

education has stepped to an ultra-place and time in 21st century. we have entered to digital and wireless communication century which mobile technologies have changed the process of education and instruction. the application of these mobile technologies for creation of knowledge, attitude and skill in learners is called mobile learning. the effectiveness of mobile learning programs requires new...

The collaborative writing is an important task in distance education. For this reason, the implementation of one hypertext editor in TIDIA-Ae environment is indispensable. This tool is allowing the content production for all laboratories in TIDIA-Ae project.

For at least the last few decades Australia has enjoyed a reputation of being a leader in distance education and an early adopter of technology for educational purposes. This historical context has also provided a good foundation for the development of e-learning, within both public and private sectors. However, developments in the broader global setting now mean that such leadership is no long...

The current paper discuses the potential use of Wiki as an environment for the formation of student models during distance education sessions. The idea of student models is not novel, rather their benefits in distance education. The up growth use of Wiki environment signals the culmination of variety collaborative activities in the field of distance education. Is it proper and what is the possi...

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 ...

With the rapid growth of the Internet users and its applications there has been considerable interest in Web-based education systems that facilitates distance education. In this paper, we propose a Subject Model for Web-based Education system. The designed model uses a tree with multiple links. Each link weight has been derived from the conceptual relations, among the concepts of the subject. T...

This paper describes the costs associated with providing library support for a series of distance-education courses at The Ohio State University (OSU). These courses are designed as a pilot program offered by the OSU Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Costs to the library are analyzed for document delivery, electronic reserves, reference services, and librarian activities. Also included are ...

Since fall 2009, reference librarians at The George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library have been embedded in online classes through Blackboard within the School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The authors sought to determine the types of questions asked of the librarian, with the goal of informing future interactions with distance education classes...