Characteristics of Distance Learning in Academia, Business, and Government.

Abstract

Distance learning is defined as: any method of presenting training that is interactive and in which the students are physically separate from the instructor. This research effort focused on the impact of distance learning on the curriculum, types of student-instructor interaction, student interaction with the instructional materials, and on the preparation of faculty and staff for conducting distance learning. A primary goal was to determine if there are specific categories of objectives, task characteristics, or instructional strategies which lend themselves to particular distance learning technologies. This report also details the development, composition and distribution of a distance learning survey and summarizes the results associated with the data analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA311369

Entities

People

  • Dennis Gettman
  • Elizabeth G. Gibson
  • Sheng‐Jen Hsieh
  • Todd M. Miller
  • William J. Walsh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Audiovisual Aids
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Distance Learning
  • Doctrine
  • Educational Technology
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Instructors
  • Management Personnel
  • Network Science
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training Management
  • Video Teleconferencing

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • STEM Education