International Journal of Educational Telecommunications articles from September 2001

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications archives from September 2001

Beyond Threaded Discourse.(distance education)
September 22, 2001... The educational potential of asynchronous, computer-mediated conferencing is well documented. Opportunities for increased group interaction, more equitable communication patterns, higher degrees of reflection, and time-and-place-independent...

The Principle of Vicarious Interaction in Computer-Mediated Communications.
September 22, 2001... Prior research has identified four kinds of interaction that affect the learning process in distance education (Hillman, Willis, & Gunawardena, 1994; Moore, 1989). This article defines, characterizes, and describes a fifth form of interaction...

The Development of a Distance Learning Policy.
September 22, 2001... This century will see the increase in popularity of distance learning programs because of the added opportunity they provide to people to further their education. As such, it behooves colleges and universities to establish a distance learning...

Viewing Online Learning through the Lens of Perspective Transformation.
September 22, 2001... The purpose of this collective qualitative case study was: (a) to describe the learning perspectives of students enrolled in two online graduate-level library media courses, and (b) to explore the theory of perspective transformation as a...

The Educational MOO--User Profile.(Multi User Dimension Object Oriented environment)
September 22, 2001... This article attempts to investigate the social and educational potential of the Multi User Dimension Object Oriented (MOO) environment, with emphasis on the educational MOO. This is accomplished through a close examination of the profile of...

Paradigms and Frames for R&D in Distance Education: Toward Collaborative Electronic Learning.
September 22, 2001... This article investigates the relationship between paradigms of teaching and learning and models of distance education. The underlying premise of this article is that fundamental beliefs about the nature of reality (ontology), the nature of...