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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
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Smith, Patricia L.; Dillon, Connie L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1999
Proposes a schema system based on media-attribute theory that can be used to classify both media and delivery systems based on research related to learning and motivation in distance education. Comparative studies must explain why and how the media and delivery systems were used to support learning and motivation. Contains 34 references.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Media
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Smith, Patricia L.; Dillon, Connie L. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1999
Contends that comparison studies offer one important view from which to frame questions about the study of distance education. Responds to Farhad Saba's ("Toward a Systems Theory of Distance Education") major premises about distance-education research. (AEF)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Distance Education, Educational Media
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Dillon, Connie L.; Walsh, Stephen M. – American Journal of Distance Education, 1992
Reviews research related to faculty in distance education and discusses issues concerning faculty participation in distance education, including a theoretical framework of distance education, context of the research studies, faculty characteristics, faculty attitudes toward distance education, faculty rewards and incentives, leadership, training…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty, Higher Education