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Creating The Online Learning Community For Distributed Education Doctoral Programs, Miguel Ramlatchan
Creating The Online Learning Community For Distributed Education Doctoral Programs, Miguel Ramlatchan
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Many colleges and universities now readily embrace the Internet as a viable distributed learning delivery model. As such, the Internet is a valuable tool to attract the highest quality students to an institution’s academic programs. However, while this may work well at the undergraduate or master’s level, many institutions maintain a required residential or internship requirement as part of a doctoral program. This interactive learning community is a vital aspect of a quality doctorate program. This paper presents a means to create an online learning community to replicate the residential graduate student experience. This goal is accomplished through the collaborative …