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Promoting faculty commitment to distance learning.
Academic Exchange Quarterly
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March 22, 2006 |
McLean, Jennifer |
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Abstract
Despite the rapid growth of distance learning programs, faculty are often resistant to moving their courses into a distance learning format. This manuscript synthesizes the sources of concern among resistant faculty as identified in the literature, the common mechanisms to bridge those concerns, and evaluate the effectiveness of the administrative solutions that have sought to address them.
Introduction
Web-based distance learning is transforming teaching and learning in higher education. As the long-standing tradition of the physical classroom as the embodiment of higher education changes, new perspectives on what education "looks ...
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