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Trekles, Anastasia M.; Sims, Roderick – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2013
The purpose of this exploratory case study was to explore instructional design strategies and characteristics of online, asynchronous accelerated courses and students' choices of deep or surface learning approaches within this environment. An increasing number of university programs, particularly at the graduate level, are moving to an…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Acceleration (Education), Qualitative Research
Parer, Michael S. – 1988
A study was conducted to examine the relationships of four areas of textual design factors that are relevant to external students' learning as they use their course study guides: the micro and macro textual features, the linguistics, and the instructional design elements. Twelve external students from two units at the Gippsland Institute were…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Comprehension, Distance Education, External Degree Programs