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Hillier, Mathew – Distance Education, 2018
This paper explores a proposal for an off-line e-learning platform that will provide a bridge for digitally unconnected students and educators to join the contemporary information and communications technology (ICT) intensive world. Individual remote and unconnected learners face a chicken and egg problem for engagement with contemporary…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Program Proposals, Systems Approach
Dhlamini, Nodumo – Distance Education, 2011
The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), established in 2004, is a network of 25 universities at the postgraduate level in 15 countries in Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa. RUFORUM's mission is to strengthen the capacity of universities to foster innovations responsive to demands of smallholder farmers…
Descriptors: Expertise, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Consortia
Correia, Ana-Paula; Davis, Niki – Distance Education, 2008
This article is a case study that aimed at understanding the dynamics of two complementary communities involved in a distance education graduate program: one community of practice formed by the instructors and instructional developers, who designed and developed the program, and another created by the students and instructor in one of the online…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Distance Education, Online Courses, Case Studies
Naidu, Som – Distance Education, 1987
As a regional institution serving the needs of 11 different island nations of the South West Pacific, the University of the South Pacific (USP) is, along with its on-campus face-to-face teaching activity, deeply committed to and reliant on distance study methods. Both of these activities at the university are the principal responsibility of a…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Instructional Design

Graham, Mary; Scarborough, Helen – Distance Education, 2001
Reports on the development of an asynchronous learning environment for teaching introductory macroeconomics to approximately 200 distance education students. The research supports evidence in the literature that computer mediated communication an in particular, collaborative learning, can make a positive difference to the educational experience of…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education, Higher Education

Brigham, David E. – Distance Education, 1992
Identifies factors facilitating and impeding the development of eight print-based distance education undergraduate courses designed by Syracuse University's Center for Instructional Development for U.S. Marines stationed in Saudi Arabia, including course definition, faculty perception of student abilities, textbook selection, faculty/developer…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Instructional Design
Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Ortegano-Layne, Ludmila; Carabajal, Kayleigh; Frechette, Casey; Lindemann, Ken; Jennings, Barbara – Distance Education, 2006
We discuss the development of an instructional design model, WisCom (Wisdom Communities), based on socio-constructivist and sociocultural learning philosophies and distance education principles for the development of online wisdom communities, and the application and evaluation of the model in an online graduate course in the USA. The WisCom model…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Design, Internet, Constructivism (Learning)