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Caruth, Gail D.; Caruth, Donald L. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Online learning is a descendant of distance education. Online education has a shared history with correspondence learning. In 1873, Anna Eliot Ticknor founded the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. Ticknor's Society established one of America's first correspondence schools, a distance learning option conducted through the mail. This Society was…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational History, Intellectual History
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Ali, Afzaal; Ramay, Muhammad I.; Shahzad, Mudasar – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
In this paper, the primary objective of the research team was to find out the relationship between student satisfaction and the following variables of the distance learning environment: instructors' performance, course evaluation and student-instructor interaction. The sample consisted of 245 students of Allama Iqbal Open University of Pakistan.…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Distance Education, Course Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
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Karal, Hasan; Cebi, Ayca; Turgut, Yigit Emrah – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Nowadays knowledge and communication technologies are developing rapidly and changing people's lives. With the help of the developing technologies, people can access knowledge independent of time and place and distance education technologies offer handicapped students a range of opportunities in order that they may access a better level of…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Physical Disabilities, Distance Education, Synchronous Communication
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Al-Fahad, Fahad N. – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
The growth of distance education course offerings is an indication of its importance to students. The purpose of this study is to investigate learners' satisfaction toward online e-learning implemented in the College of Applied Studies and Community Service, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the meantime, also, this study was…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Participant Satisfaction, Community Services
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Jumani, Nabi Bux; Rahman, Fazalur; Chishti, Saeedul Hasan; Malik, Samina – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is the first Open University in Asia and established in 1974 on the model of UKOU. AIOU uses different media for the delivery of instruction. It has a well established Institute of Educational Technology which has radio and TV production facilities and advance level of work in computer technology. AOU offers…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Open Universities, Distance Education, Training Methods
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Bose, Sutapa; Sharma, Parveen – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2010
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) of India uses multiple media and modes for reaching out to its distant learners. For most of the programmes offered to these learners, print is the master medium and other media supplement it. Instructions for the Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.), one of the popular programmes of IGNOU, are also…
Descriptors: Media Selection, Educational Media, Questionnaires, Student Surveys