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- Title: Students' Perceptions of Online Courses: The Effect of Online Course Experience (Report)
- Author : Quarterly Review of Distance Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 267 KB
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INTRODUCTION Distance education is a method of instruction that allows course instructors and enrolled students to use a variety of methods, some of which are driven by technology, for course delivery and the facilitation of learning (Valentine, 2002). Varieties of distance education include mail correspondence, television-based courses, and online instructional methods. Interaction between the instructor and students is critical, as it facilitates learning in the absence of face-to-face meetings in a classroom setting. Mail correspondence and television-based courses allow instructors and students to be separated by space and time; however, with the rapid development of technology and its availability for implementation and use on university campuses, simulcasts via the Internet can approximate the face-to-face interaction that students receive in the traditional classroom (Teaster & Blieszner, 1999; Valentine, 2002).