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Barriers to Distance Education: Perceptions of K-12 Educators
Lin Muilenburg; Zane Berge
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 256–259
Instructional-use computers are continuing to migrate into the classrooms, with public schools reporting over half the installed base now located in classrooms. Still, education struggles with the rapid expansion of technology. This article...
Topics: Middle School Education, Secondary Education, Elementary Education, Educational Technology, Distance Education
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Exploring the Relationship Between Mediating Tools and Student Perception of Interdependence in a CSCL Environment
Yi-Mei Lin; James Laffey
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 17, No. 4 (October 2006) pp. 385–400
This study investigated how different tools differentially mediate the way groups interact and how the differential tool use and interactivity influence interdependence in online collaborative activity. Activity Theory is used as a framework to...
Topics: Post Secondary Education, Collaboration, Communication, Interaction, Distance Education
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Investigating the Quality of Distance Learning in Media Communication Architecture based on Taiwan Experience
Chung-Cheng Lin; JyhHorng Wu; Shyi-Ching Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 114–120
From the 1990s, the Internet has become a useful and convenient platform. Because of the Internet, the distance between people is closer.With the increasing popularity of videoconferencing around the business world, this technology has also applied...
Topics: Networking Technologies, Business, Internet, Distance Education
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Using project-based learning as the intercultural collaboration framework for an international distance course
Wei-Jane Lin; Hsiu-Ping Yueh; Yi-Lin Liu; Tetsuo Shoji; Koh Kakusho; Michihiko Minoh
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1855–1860
This paper describes the implementation of using project-based learning in an international distance course to support students' intercultural collaboration. Sixty-three students with different nationalities, cultures, school traditions and...
Topics: Curriculum, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Collaboration, Students
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A Factor Analytic Study of Barriers Perceived by Students to Online Learning
Lin Muilenburg; Zane Berge
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 2050–2053
We want to better understand which students will face barriers when attempting to learn online, what those barriers are, and ultimately how we can help individuals in their learning by understanding and ameliorating their obstacles. The survey...
Topics: Distance Education, Classrooms
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Comparison of E-Learning in Distance Education in Different Cultural Settings
Geping Liu; Youmei Liu; Guoli Liang; Jihua Song; Jian Liao; Guifang Li; Meng-Fen Lin
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004 (2004) pp. 370–374
This study is to compare the evaluation of e-learning programs in distance education in different cultural settings. The two compared institutions are University of Houston in the United States and Online Institution at Southwest Normal University...
Topics: Culture, Instructional Design, Distance Education, Students, Research Methods
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Is Learning More Influenced by Media or Instruction? East and West Issues
Jack Fei Yang; Larry K. Bright; Nick Chao-Ming Lin; Robert Hsun-Cheng Lin; Ching-Mei Hsiao
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 1095–1099
Both instruction methods and types of distance media may influence learning. This paper explores differences between East and West distance-learning environments and implications for distance education media uses. Cultural traditions affect...
Topics: Distance Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Outcomes
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Factors Which Predict Compliance with Accessibility Guidelines for Disabled Users By Higher Education Institutions
Elizabeth C. Smith; Mary Nell McNeese; Lin Harper; Sherry Finneran
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 922–929
This study investigated whether the instructional delivery modes primarily, and the institutional barriers to starting and expanding distance education offerings secondarily, could statistically significantly predict the extent to which the...
Topics: Distance Education, Accessibility
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Issues in Future Distance Educational Research
Jack Fei Yang; Chao-Ming Lin; Hsun-Cheng Lin,; Ching-Mei Hsiao
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 4876–4880
There is an important need in providing media comparison research in order to adopt the most appropriate media for distance learning, however, beyond the media comparison studies?future researchers should avoid focusing only on a media comparison...
Topics: Learning Outcomes, Race, Educational Technology, Instructional Design, Distance Education
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Seven Challenges for East/West Distance Educational Development
Jack Fei Yang; Chao-Ming Lin; Hsun-Cheng Lin
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 5318–5321
As different societies have different economics, technologies, politics, culture and educational policies, there are number of challenges to global distance educational development. This paper focuses on differences between the East and West...
Topics: Culture, Educational Technology, Distance Education, Administration
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Assessing Social Ability in Online Learning Environments
James Laffey; Guan Yu Lin; Yimei Lin
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2006) pp. 163–177
Education is a social practice and the ability to interact socially is important to social cognitive learning and social learning. Online education is frequently criticized because it lacks social interaction, a sense of social engagement, and the...
Topics: Interaction, Distance Education, online learning, research, web-based learning, online education, Interactivity, Human Computer Interaction, Research Methods
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An examination of the functional capabilities of different user environments in networked classes and the development of a school-based language lesson and self-study system based on this examination
Narita Seinosuke; ChunChen Lin; Fujita Shinichi
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1125–1130
With the advent of high-speed networks, feasibility studies and development of network-based systems to support class work has been pursued with vigor, resulting in new education environments such as remote lessons and cooperative learning. These...
Topics: Communication, Computers, Distance Education, System Configurations, Physical Environments