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Discusses delivery systems in distance education and suggests that too much time is spent on choosing a delivery system rather than analyzing distance education as a whole. Presents a distance-education hierarchy that in...
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Discusses the growth of corporate universities. Topics include online technologies; increased need for maintaining and increasing the knowledge levels of staff; shifting economic base; accreditation issues; and distance ...
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Discusses the distinctions made between hardware and technology as applied to distance education. Highlights include hardware and technology in the planning process, media-delivery systems in higher education, communicat...
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Discusses the use of technology in higher education. Highlights include faculty anxiety and lack of institutional support staff; reductionist paradigms of educational technology; hybrid model of technology-based educatio...
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Continues discussion of distance-education systems based on a model consisting of students, teachers, administrators and other professionals in schools, universities, libraries, and other institutions (presented in previ...
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Examines concepts that are closely associated with distance education. Discusses the beginnings of open education; open access and admission criteria; course availability; access to technology; the E-rate program for tho...
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Continues discussion of a distance-education systems model (presented in previous issues). Examines societal systems, the next level of this hierarchical model. Discusses responding to social needs, social and economic c...
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The third in a series defining the field of distance education and its related concepts, this article focuses on flexible education, a term closely associated with open education. Discussion includes flexibility, autonom...
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Discusses the use of technology in higher education and cites statewide plans in California and Washington that have recently been criticized for an overemphasis on technology. Topics include knowledge as a static commod...
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Outlines the role of faculty and issues that need to be addressed early on if large-scale distance education is going to be successful. Discusses academic freedom; intellectual property; training; compensation; and royal...
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Discusses the following indicators for measuring success in mainstreaming distance education in higher education: integration, resulting in funding and credit for off-campus students; course ownership, providing legal pr...
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Describes how a computer simulation research method can be used for studying distance education systems. Topics discussed include systems research in distance education; a technique of model development using the System ...