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Quarterly Review of Distance Education

2009 Volume 10, Number 3

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Number of articles: 7

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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

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