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Online instruction: new roles for teachers and students.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| December 22, 2001 | Young, Suzanne; Cantrell, Pamela P.; Shaw, Dale G. | 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 purpose of this study was to investigate how instructors design and deliver online courses in higher education. One hundred four instructors (response rate of 69%) responded to the survey. Online instructors described how teacher and student roles are changing in the online environment, the ways in which they can personalize a course to include all students, the demands of online teaching that differ from traditional classes, and the difficulties they encountered with technology.

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Online delivery of college-level courses is rapidly becoming the modal approach to distance education. This boom has been fueled by the advent ...

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