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Pål Anders Opdal – Discover Education, 2025
In the wake of the COVID-pandemic, and from the perspective of analytical philosophy of education, this paper investigates into, and discusses, costs and benefits to online teaching in higher education. Contrasting old and new ways of teaching, notions that are developed below, notable results in the paper are the following: a) even if expedient,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Teaching Experience, Teaching (Occupation), Online Courses
Julia E. Seaman; Jeff Seaman – Bay View Analytics, 2019
Student enrollment in higher education institutions has undergone fundamental changes over the last decade, a condition only exacerbated by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between 2012 and 2019, the total number of students enrolled at U.S. degree-granting institutions dropped by almost 1.1 million. At the same time, the number of students…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Enrollment Influences, Colleges, COVID-19
Utah System of Higher Education, 2016
For Fall 2016, of the 175,509 students enrolled in the Utah System of Higher Education at third week, 69,535 (39.6 %) are participating in some form of technology delivered instruction. Of that total, 54,269 (30.9%) enrolled in at least one online class. Despite availability of online courses and degrees, students prefer using online courses to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Influence of Technology, Delivery Systems, Distance Education
Khodabandelou, Rouhollah; Jalil, Habibah Ab; Ali, Wan Zah Wan; Daud, Shaffe Mohd – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2015
Blended learning as "third generation" of distance learning has the potential to offer multimethod instruction through the blend, to leverage the strengths of current online and traditional instructions. Therefore, higher education institutions having recognized the fact that blended learning is beneficial, adopted this alternative…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, Educational Environment, Delivery Systems
Rodriguez, Osvaldo – Open Praxis, 2013
The last five years have witnessed a hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) presaging a revolution in higher education. Although all MOOCs have in common their scale and free access, they have already bifurcated in two very distinct types of courses when compared in terms of their underpinning theory, format and structure, known as c-MOOCs…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Concept Formation, Learning Theories
Admiraal, Wilfried; Huisman, Bart; Pilli, Olga – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2015
Open online distance learning in higher education has quickly gained popularity, expanded, and evolved, with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as the most recent development. New web technologies allow for scalable ways to deliver video lecture content, implement social forums and track student progress in MOOCs. However, we remain limited in…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Open Education, Distance Education, Student Evaluation
Foss, Brynjar; Oftedal, Bjorg F.; Lokken, Atle – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2013
Electronically supported learning has increasingly been introduced and accepted into the academic community over recent decades, and a variety of new digital learning tools have been developed to serve students both for distance education and on-campus blended learning. To serve our distance education nursing students, we recently developed unique…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Nursing Students, Multimedia Instruction, Student Attitudes
Soderstrom, Tor; From, Jorgen; Lovqvist, Jeanette; Tornquist, Anette – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2012
In Sweden, higher education has moved away from distance education, including physical meetings, to online education with no physical meetings at all. This article focuses on the shift from distance to online education using an educational management perspective that is based on economic, staff, and student data collected between 1994 and 2010…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Foreign Countries, Educational Administration
Ferrer-Cascales, Rosario; Walker, Scott L.; Reig-Ferrer, Abilio; Fernandez-Pascual, Maria Dolores; Albaladejo-Blazquez, Natalia – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
This article describes the adaptation and validation of the "Distance Education Learning Environments Survey" (DELES) for use in investigating the qualities found in distance and hybrid education psycho-social learning environments in Spain. As Europe moves toward post-secondary student mobility, equanimity in access to higher education,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Higher Education, Distance Education, Foreign Countries
Allen, I. Elaine; Seaman, Jeff – Sloan Consortium (NJ1), 2010
"Learning on Demand: Online Education in the United States, 2009" represents the seventh annual report on the state of online learning among higher education institutions in the United States. The study is aimed at answering some of the fundamental questions about the nature and extent of online education. Based on responses from over…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Online Courses, Teaching Methods

Yeung, Davey – Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2001
Discussion of quality in higher education focuses on quality assurance of Web-based learning in distance education, based on experiences at the Open University of Hong Kong. Highlights include problems with distance education; a literature review; traditional learning versus Web-based learning; and the changing role of faculty. (Contains 63…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Distance Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education

Ritchie, Helen – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 1993
Summarizes a study of subject-initiated interaction and instructor-facilitated instruction to determine which mode would result in the greatest amount of interaction during interactive televised instruction. Interaction frequency was measured and a questionnaire soliciting subject attitudes toward televised instruction was administered. (Contains…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Distance Education, Educational Television, Higher Education

Kochman, Art; Maddux, Cleborne D. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2001
Describes a study conducted at the University of Nevada at Reno that compared final grades received by on-campus students and those completing interactive televised distance learning (ITDL) courses at remote sites. Results showed off-campus ITDL students had higher grades and suggests further research is needed to determine why. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Conventional Instruction, Distance Education, Grades (Scholastic)

Landis, Melodee – Educational Technology & Society, 2001
Describes a study conducted at the University of Nebraska at Omaha that used questionnaires and interviews to compare and contrast the interaction that occurred in distance learning courses offered via two-way, fully interactive audio-video classrooms and online instruction through the Internet or World Wide Web. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Communications, Comparative Analysis, Distance Education, Higher Education
Hiltz, Starr Roxanne – 1988
Software to support teaching and learning activities was added to a computer mediated communications system to create a "virtual classroom." The goals included improving access to and effectiveness of college-level courses, particularly by facilitating collaborative learning. The process and outcomes were compared for sections of several…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Courseware, Distance Education, Higher Education