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Student Perceptions: Agents of Interaction in Distance Classes.(Statistical Data Included)

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| June 22, 2001 | Schmertzing, Lorraine C.; Schmertzing, Richard W. | COPYRIGHT 2001 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The use of ethnographic research methods to explore graduate students' perceptions of interactive televised distance classes showed a connection between students' perceptions and students' patterns of interaction as they related to learner-learner interaction, learner-content interaction, and learner-instructor interaction. Students' traditional place in the social structure of the classroom was changed by the technologically mediated environment in a way that redefined membership of the class and threatened interaction both within and across sites.

Introduction

The social interactions that occur within classrooms have been an ...

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