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Coldeway, Dan O.; Spencer, Robert E. – Distance Education, 1982
Reviews research results and arguments supporting Keller's Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) as a paradigm for distance learning, describes a project at Athabasca University which compared various PSI configurations for distance learning, and discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and flexibility of PSI for such use. Nineteen references…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Individualized Instruction
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Devlin, Frank – Writing Center Journal, 1996
Examines two studies: one that shows that competent to highly competent writers find writing centers beneficial, and the other that shows that faculty continue to think of writing centers as suited to remedial students and surface level corrections. Attempts to glean from these studies important information that could act as a corrective to all…
Descriptors: Grammar, Higher Education, Punctuation, Remedial Instruction
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Morgan, Colin; Morris, Glyn – Open Learning, 1994
Reports results of a telephone survey of students in the Open University's School of Education (Wales), set in the context of Total Quality Management, that investigated student attitudes toward tutorial support. The need for improved service in rural areas is discussed, and implications for tutors and for marketing strategies are suggested. (LRW)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education