Quarterly Review of Distance Education
2009 Volume 10, Number 3
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 7
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Designing Online and On-Ground Courses to Ensure Comparability and Consistency in Meeting Learning Outcomes
Dee L. Fabry
This article examines the issues and barriers to effective online course design, recent research concerning guidelines for designing effective online courses (Bannan-Ritlan, 2002; Hirumi, 2005;... More
pp. 253-261
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Motivations for Residential Students to Participate in Online Courses
Ray Pastore & Alison Carr-Chellman
This study sought to discover what motivates undergraduate residential students to enroll in online courses. By exploring this question, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of why students would... More
pp. 263-277
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Best Practices for Online Instructors: Reminders
Wade W. Fish & Leah E. Wickersham
Online education has become increasingly popular in higher education, which is a trend that will continue as more universities have begun to heavily invest in online teaching due to student demand.... More
pp. 279-284
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Student Perceptions of Social Task Development in Online Group Project Work
Kari Morgan, Bruce A. Cameron & Karen C. Williams
This article explores student perceptions of social task development in an online group project and poses recommendations for implementation of group projects. Qualitative methods were used to... More
pp. 285-294
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Time and Place Utility and the Requirement for Spontaneity
Jacqueline S. Scerbinski
This research brief addresses the quandary that arises when distance learners require both time and place utility, and prefer live interface. The development of the hybrid course, which... More
pp. 295-298
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Learners' Preferences in Using Online Learning Resources
Sha Li, Amy Leh, Yujian Fu & Xiang Zhao
This article describes an action research in a graduate educational technology class. The study employed the Online Top-Down Modeling Model (Li & Liu, 2005) as a case in which the students used the... More
pp. 299-303
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How a Novice Adult Online Learner Experiences Transactional Distance
David S. Stein, Jennifer Calvin & Constance E. Wanstreet
This naturalistic inquiry explored the theory of transactional distance by investigating how a novice adult learner experiences an online environment. Three themes that are related to how the... More
pp. 305-311