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A New Way of Learning.
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Cawkell, Tony – Information Services & Use, 1998
Presents a brief historical background for computer-assisted instruction and distance learning in the United States and the United Kingdom (UK). Focuses on the National Grid of Learning (NGL), an experiment in the UK to connect all learning institutions electronically. (AEF)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Mentoring the Distance Learner.
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Ronan, Nessan J. – Open Learning, 1997
Describes a distance mentoring relationship between a student in a master's program at a United Kingdom university and her professor at the University of Botswana (Africa). Highlights include reading/interpreting the course material; tackling assignments; handling feedback; formulating the dissertation topic; indigenizing the theoretical…
Descriptors: Assignments, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Developing Nations
An Investigation of the Potential for a Computer-based Tutorial Program Covering the Cardiovascular System to Replace Traditional Lectures.
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Dewhurst, D. G.; Williams, A. D. – Computers & Education, 1998
Presents the results of a comparative study to evaluate the effectiveness of two interactive computer-based learning (CBL) programs, covering the cardiovascular system, as an alternative to lectures for first year undergraduate students at a United Kingdom University. Discusses results in relation to the design of evaluative studies and the future…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Cardiovascular System, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
Access At-a-Distance: Purposes and Pedagogy.
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Chambers, Ellie – Staff and Educational Development International, 1997
Examines recent attempts by the Open University to widen access to higher education in the United Kingdom through provision of distance-taught access materials which may be studied prior to enrollment in the undergraduate program. The materials development approach taken is a discourse model which arises out of a view of learning as a…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Access to Information, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education