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Peer reviewedBarker, Bruce A. – Rural Educator, 1990
Reviews distance-education technologies, their uses for rural schools, and related issues. Lists advantages and disadvantages for satellite TV teaching, microcomputer networks, and two-way TV instruction. Concludes that technologies' advantages outweigh disadvantages. Suggests final decision making and assessment depend on local program content…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Comparative Analysis, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
Download full textHobbs, Vicki M. – 1990
In 1990 a comparative analysis was conducted of North Dakota student achievement across three forms of distance education: instruction by satellite, audiographic tele-learning, and two way interactive educational television. Based in part on the 1988 study of a German by Satellite program in Missouri and North Dakota, this study mailed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Communications Satellites, Comparative Analysis
