and other research outputs Reflections on student support in open and distance learning Journal Article

A survey investigated the attitudes of commuter students toward distance education. RecTondents were 397 students, attending Purdue University Calumet (Indiana) for at least two semesters. Results indicated that if the students had the optior of taking a course at home or in a classroom, 59 percent

This paper describes solutions to issues in presenting a graduate program in distance education online. The author acquired significant experience in synchronous Internet distributed education by experimental teaching online. This process has produced an open-source software system for synchronous

A key inhibitor to effective distance education in Information Technology is providing a “hands on ” laboratory experience that allows students to acquire the application and problem solving skills expected of IT graduates. While there are instances of universities developing and deploying remote

One of the most common problems reported by students in distance learning courses is the feeling of isolation. The lack of aural and visual cues, the geographical and psychological distance among distance-learners and/or between the tutor and the students, the absence of expression of emotions

examples. In this paper, we present an algorithm that, given examples of similar (and, if desired, dissimilar) pairs of points in R , learns a distance metric over R that respects these relationships. Our method is based on posing metric learning as a convex optimization problem, which allows us

Distance learning for higher education has its advocates and its detractors. Researchers, drawing primarily on psychological and educational research literatures, make impassioned arguments for and against institutionalizing distance learning. Undoubtedly, with increasingly rapid technological

For more than twenty years, engineering distance learning programs have provided post-baccalaureate education for working engineers and scientists. The programs are offered in

Network (OLN) collaborated on an initiative to award grants to researchers to conduct studies of distance learning to inform and guide distance learning practices in Ohio’s institutions of higher education. The following overall research questions focused the Request For Proposals: 1. Under what

adoption. In addition, there has been recent interest in more closely examining specific beliefs, including perceived compatibility. In this study we use the context of distance learning to develop and test a model of use intentions. Our main focus is on two under-researched forces that may influence