Cooperation vs. Deliberation: CMC and the Problem of Argument in International Distance Education
The idea that Internet-based distance education offers the potential to globalize higher education has not been matched by significant interest in the pedagogical and methodological issues at stake. This essay discusses a two-year experimental course conducted between two college classes in Karlskrona, Sweden and Ohio, in the United States. More...
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of e-learning in Corporate Training Programs
Corporate managers are constantly looking for more cost-effective ways to deliver training to their employees. E-learning is less expensive than traditional classroom instruction. In addition, many expenses - booking training facilities, travel costs for employees or trainers, plus employee time away from the job - are greatly reduced. More...
Building Sense of Community at a Distance
This article challenges the belief that strong sense of community is limited to the traditional classroom and proposes that the virtual classroom has the potential of building and sustaining sense of community at levels that are comparable to the traditional classroom. More...
IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning) - Vol 3, No 1 (2002)
Table of Contents
Editorial
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Editorial
Peter S. Cookson
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Research Articles
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Judith B. Strother
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Michael Davis, Albert Rouzie
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Scott McLean, Lavinia Gasperini, Stephen Rudgard
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Avigail Oren, David Mioduser, Rafi Nachmia
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Alfred P. Rovai
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Research Notes
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Towards a Strategy for Improved Student Retention in Programmes of Open, Distance Education: A Case Study From the Open University UK
Susan Tresman
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Electronic Tutorials: Indonesian Experience
Tian Belawati, Mohamad Toha Anggoro, A.P. Hardhono, Tri Darmayanti
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Online Learning Activities: Beginning An International Collaboration
Tom Nickel
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Book Notes
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Book Review - African Youth on the Information Highway: Participation and Leadership in Community Development. Editors: O. Ogbu and P. Mihyo
Richard Siaciwena
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Book Review - Supporting Students in Open and Distance Learning. Author: Ormond Simpson
Ramesh Sharma
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Book Review - Keeping Students in Higher Education: Successful practices and strategies for retention. Authors: D. Moxley, A. Najor-Durack and C. Dumbrigue
Susan Tresman
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Technical Notes
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Chat and Instant Messaging Systems
Jennifer Stein, Debbie Garber, Jon Baggaley
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Software Evaluation Criteria and Terminology
Diane Belyk, David Feist
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Fully Featured vs. Lean-and-Mean?
Jon Baggaley
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Dual-Platform Products (PC and Mac)
David Feist, Diane Belyk
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Evaluating Vendor Supplied Information
Patrick J. Fahy
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Full Issue
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IRRODL Volume 3, Number 1
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The University of Texas System TeleCampus: A statewide model for collaboration
The University of Texas (UT) System has been meeting educational needs of students for over 150 years. In 1997, the UT System initiated the development of the UT TeleCampus, a centralized facilitation point for distance learning. The TeleCampus opened its virtual doors in May 1998, focused entirely on support services for students. By late 1998, the TeleCampus had begun developing what would become collaborative benchmark online programs for the UT System. More...
Ukraine Open University: Its Prospects in Distance Education Development
The genesis, initiation, and expansion of distance education at the Ukraine Open International University for Human Development, located in Kyiv, will be examined in this case study, starting with a brief look at the positive changes taking place in Ukraine's traditional educational system, as well as recent developments in the country's distance education (DE) system. More...
A New Learning Model for the Information and Knowledge Society: The Case of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Spain
When it was created in 1995, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) served only 200 students and offered two degrees. Today, it has expanded its activities to serve over 20,000 students and 16 official degrees. UOC also offers more than 250 continuing education courses for those wishing to pursue learning opportunities outside of UOC’s official degree programs. As an innovative university, UOC offers a new way of experiencing education, one that is capable of providing answers to an emerging global and universal knowledge society. More...
Open University Center of the Pontifical Javeriana University, Colombia
According to García Canclini (1990) there is the assumption that Colombia is a hybrid society. Upon this standpoint, and within a traditional higher education structure characterized by being fundamentally conventional or campus based, the Open University Center of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana was created as an education program that breaks with every traditional scheme, which in turn, encourages a new learning pattern. The Open University Center emerges as a "social response" focused on the "here and now" of today's society in Colombia. More...
Global Perspectives: The University of South Australia (UniSA) Case Study
This case study describes current developments in the change processes that are underway at the University of South Australia (UniSA) as it develops from a dual mode institution to one that embraces flexibility in delivery of all of its courses and programs. Forces operating in the context of higher education are causing traditional institutions to become dual mode. More...
The Development of CyberLearning in Dual-Mode: Higher Education Institutions in Taiwan
Open and distance education in Taiwan has evolved into the third phase – cyberlearning – conceptualized as teaching and learning interactions mediated entirely through the application of state-of-the-art information and communications technologies (ICT), such as the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). More...
