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Pan, Cheng Chang; Lu, Ming-Tsan Pierre; Graham, Jeffrey – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2018
The current phase of the survey study is intended to investigate college students' perception of instructor integrated use of mobile technology and its relationship with students' affinity for technology and class modes, using 2 years' data (2013 and 2015). Preliminary results with students' technology affinity, class modality, and year seem…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
Al-Harthi, Aisha S. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2010
This study investigated the differences between Arab and American distance learners' preference in the 2 components of transactional distance (structure and interaction) and their relation to learners' self-efficacy and help seeking. The study sample consisted of 95 cases from each group (N = 190). Study results indicated significant differences…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Distance Education, Self Efficacy, Arabs
Gale, Ken; Wheeler, Steve; Kelly, Peter – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
This study explores the relationship between online learners and the Web-based learning environments they study within. The extent to which the online learning environment constitutes a cultural influence on the learners, and the manner in which different individuals within the group influence the emergence of a particular cultural identity were…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Problem Based Learning, Group Dynamics
Kilic-Cakmak, Ebru; Karatas, Sercin; Ocak, Mehmet Akif – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2009
There are many factors that affect the e-learning process. Instructor, assessment and evaluation, communication, and technical support are among the leading factors. It is obvious that these factors influence the effectiveness of e-learning and may be related to different expectations of e-learners. Therefore, this study focuses on examining the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technical Support, Community Colleges, Program Effectiveness

Brill, Jennifer M. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2001
Explores what a move to Web-based education means for today's educators as they reinvent their professional practice in a distance learning environment. Presents traditional views of teachers and teaching and contrasts them with new paradigms for teaching and learning. Offers critical knowledge, skills, and other supports needed to shift from…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Change, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Adcock, Amy B.; Duggan, Molly H.; Nelson, Elizabeth K.; Nickel, Christine – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
This article describes an exploratory study of two Web-based learning environments designed to teach helping skills to human service students. Participants used either an interactive pedagogical agent environment or read a helper-client script. Environments were compared and learning gains were assessed in each of the environments, along with user…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Communication Skills, Human Services, Skill Development

Wang-Chavez, Jenny; Branon, Rovy; Mikolaj, Peter – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2001
This purpose of this study was to assist an instructor in facilitating an online course while the class was being offered, and to provide timely interventions for improving the course during the semester. Instructional interventions were suggested and an overall evaluation was conducted. The approach, findings, and recommendations have…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Development, Instructional Design
Li, Sha; Liu, Daonian – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
The Internet has become a major resource for teaching and learning. Educators are innovating methods and strategies to integrate Internet technology effectively into instruction to meet their various needs. Providing learning models and facilitations online for a graduate computer literacy class was a new innovation, and generated interesting…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Action Research, Computer Literacy, Internet
Reed, Philip; Turner, John – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
A difficulty for faculty new to teaching at a distance is being able to visualize the scope of needed skills and tasks that will be required of them. The purpose of this project was to provide an empirically-based, self-administered skill enhancement guide for new distance education faculty teaching via interactive satellite broadcast. A modified…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Distance Education, College Faculty, Teaching Methods

Murry, G. Brandon; Murry, Francie R. – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2001
Six research questions were posed regarding the process of developing a Web-based lesson to examine efficiency (time and effort), effectiveness (inclusion of specific instructional components and functionality of specific technical components), and appeal (anxiety, confidence, liking, usefulness and intended future use) of two Web-based lesson…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Riley, William; Anderson, Paige – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2006
The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of cooperative learning on cognitive outcomes in a public health graduate level Web-based distance education course. Specifically, the authors use a randomized control trial to determine the impact of two teaching pedagogies on learning effectiveness in three areas of the cognitive domain: (1)…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Public Health, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods
Topper, Andrew – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2005
As more and more higher education programs are offered using Web-based learning environments, instructors need to better understand the implications of using BlackBoard or similar tools to maximize student participation and facilitate learning through rich, thoughtful discussions. This study explores student participation in electronic discourse…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Student Participation, Discourse Analysis, Educational Technology