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Peer reviewedBurge, Elizabeth J.; Laroque, Daniel; Boak, Cathy – Journal of Distance Education, 2000
This reflective analysis of an online professional development event illustrates in three narratives and a meta-reflection how three practitioners negotiated the conceptual framework, the activity design, and the roles and presence of the two online facilitators. Authors show how they examined their experience and developed some insights into…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Cooperative Programs, Group Discussion, Internet
Download full textBurge, Elizabeth J. – 1994
Information highways are high speed data networks used to transport information and link people together. As more limitations of and problems with the information highway ("potholes") become apparent, the highway metaphor may have to be revisited, and the information highway must be examined with a critical eye. Distance educators…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Communications, Constructivism (Learning), Distance Education
Burge, Elizabeth J.; And Others – 1984
This paper presents a collection of experiences from the Canadian educational institutions that offer distance education. The first of four major sections defines the need for an alternative to traditional, classroom-based education, and describes the characteristics of distance education. The second section discusses the three institutions in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Communications Satellites, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education
Peer reviewedBurge, Elizabeth J.; Howard, Joan L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1990
Describes study conducted at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto that investigated graduate education students' use of audio conferencing (AC) in distance education. Evaluation results of student questionnaires are discussed, including effects of absence of visual cues; student attitudes; and role of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Burge, Elizabeth J.; Roberts, Judith M. – 1993
This manual, based on work completed for Francophone distance educators in Ontario, explores the factors and dynamics needed for learning and teaching in new classrooms that are created by the conferencing technologies of audio, audiographic, computer, and compressed video. These classrooms are new in that learners are not gathered physically in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Uses in Education, Context Effect, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedBurge, Elizabeth J. – Journal of Distance Education, 1994
Discussion of the use of computer conferencing in education focuses on a Canadian study of adult distance education students that examined learning strategies when using computer conferencing. Topics addressed include interviews with students and teachers; behavior by students and by instructors; learner control; affective needs; and implications…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adult Students, Affective Behavior, Computer Mediated Communication
