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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Liu, Xiaojing – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The complexities of digital age pose challenge to existing instruction technology theory as it applies to a distance learning environment. Through the lens of Activity Theory, this study takes a broad picture of an online course and examines the socio-cultural factors affecting the success of a distance course as well as their complex…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Social Environment
Bernard, Robert M.; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, Anne; Borokhovski, Evgueni; Lou, Yiping – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
Simonson, Schlosser and Hanson (1999) argue that a new theory called "equivalency theory" is needed to account for the unique features of the "teleconferencing" (synchronous) model of DE that is prevalent in many North American universities. Based on a comprehensive meta-analysis of the comparative literature of DE (Bernard, Abrami, Lou, Wozney,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Meta Analysis, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes