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Sharples, Mike – Teaching at a Distance, 1982
Care must be taken to select technology appropriate to the teaching task in distance education. Five principles of media selection are: increasing student-system interaction, matching the medium with the materials, reducing duplication, choosing the most direct channel, and developing user-friendly systems. Interactiveness and efficiency of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Technology, Efficiency, External Degree Programs
Download full textFeasley, Charles E. – 1983
The international literature on learning at a distance is reviewed with attention to student participation, faculty issues, the technology of delivery, necessary support systems, and the organization and process of distance education. Distance education is used in many content areas in economically diverse countries. Individuals who must learn at…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Audiovisual Communications, College Faculty, College Students
Morgan, Robert P. – 1976
Early experiments with the ATS-1 and ATS-3 satellites utilized one way and two way audio for a variety of university purposes, and several different television modes were employed in the ATS-6 satellite. Among the higher education activities on ATS-6 were inservice teacher education and the facilitation of regionalized medical education. A college…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers
Daniel, John S – 1996
This book explores the essentials of distance education and reviews issues facing large open universities (mega-universities) worldwide. It uses examples from industry and the knowledge media, to show how technology-based learning can be made attractive both to students and to institutions. The book's eight chapters, including 10 figures and 5…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Mizell, Al P.; And Others – 1993
Nova University (Florida), offers off-campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs in education, business and public administration, psychology, and computer sciences. This paper describes one of these offerings, the Application of Technology to Education and Training (APTEC) specialization in the Ed.D. program in Child and Youth Studies…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Students, Audiotape Recordings, Business
Howe, Anne, Ed.; Romiszowski, A. J., Ed. – 1976
This yearbook of the Association for Programmed Learning and Educational Technology is intended to provide an updated general reference survey for practitioners in educational technology. In Section 1, eight invited articles on trends within the field serve to outline some aspects of current thinking. Section 2 contains articles on the state of…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Catalogs, Communications, Communications Satellites
