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Online and Distance Education

2014

Distance Education

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Faculty Attitudes About Distance Education, Esther Smidt, Brian Mcdyre, Jennifer Bunk, Rui Li, Tanya Gatenby Jul 2014

Faculty Attitudes About Distance Education, Esther Smidt, Brian Mcdyre, Jennifer Bunk, Rui Li, Tanya Gatenby

Languages & Cultures Faculty Publications

In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in distance learning in higher education. Given this, it is extremely important to understand faculty attitudes about distance education, not only because they can vary widely, but also because it is the faculty, through their design and implementation of online courses, that will shape the future of distance education. The purpose of the present study is to uncover faculty attitudes about distance education in a specific context, namely that of a mid-sized mid-Atlantic state university. Data sources consist of posts from two of six discussion boards written by 21 faculty participants …


Learning Styles And Satisfaction In Distance Education, Darren C. Wu Dec 2013

Learning Styles And Satisfaction In Distance Education, Darren C. Wu

Darren Wu

Although complex, controversial, and contradicting, learning styles is highly influential. Distance education (DE) has experienced tremendous growth in the last few decades. The popularity of learning styles and DE necessitates research. This correlational research study was conducted to determine if there is any evidence to incorporate learning styles in DE. The following is the research question for this study. Are students' learning styles based on the visual, auditory, tactile model correlated to satisfaction of course format in an online undergraduate course? The participants of this study were students enrolled in three sections of the Contemporary Worldviews course at a private …