Recently added articles from Quarterly Review of Distance Education:

DISTRACTION, DOMINATION, AND DISCONNECTION IN WHOLE-CLASS, ONLINE DISCUSSIONS

Jan 01, 2007; Dooley, Kim E; Wickersham, Leah E ... Online courses continue to gain popularity at colleges and universities, with a primary tool for demonstrating critical thinking and interaction being the discussion forum. Instructors and students of online courses are faced with the dilemma of sifting through potentially hundreds of postings ...

COURSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

Jan 01, 2007; Simonson, Michael ... Course management systems, also called learning management systems or virtual learning environments, are software systems designed to assist in the management of educational courses for students, especially by helping teachers and learners with course administration. The systems can often track ...

DOES SENSE OF COMMUNITY MATTER? An Examination of Participants' Perceptions of Building Learning Communities in Online Courses

Jan 01, 2007; Liu, Xiaojing; Magjuka, Richard J; Bonk, Curtis J; Lee, Seung-hee ... Using a case study approach, this study explored the participants' perceptions of building learning communities in online courses in an online MBA program. The findings suggested that students felt a sense of belonging to a learning community when they took online courses in this program. The ...

NARROWING THE DISTANCE: Implementing a Hybrid Learning Model for Information Security Education

Jan 01, 2007; Tabor, Sharon W ... Distance education has become an expectation with students who have grown up with technology as well as nontraditional and working students. Most universities now offer a wide range of online courses and degree programs to meet these needs. Online delivery of technology courses, however, has ...

ENHANCING WEB-BASED INSTRUCTION USING A PERSON-CENTERED MODEL OF INSTRUCTION

Jan 01, 2007; Miller, Christopher T ... This study compared the implementation of a person-centered model of instruction to non-person-centered instruction in Web-based courses. Three questions were posed regarding the outcomes of the person-centered model of instruction: Is it possible to increase the self-actualization, or striving ...

PERCEPTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION FACULTY MEMBERS ON THE VALUE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

Jan 01, 2007; Ulmer, L Ward; Watson, Lemuel W; Derby, Dustin ... Perceptual differences among higher education faculty members regarding distance education were examined. It is noteworthy that only the perceptions were measured rather than actual learning outcomes and quality of distance education. The results suggested those faculty members with experience ...

SATELLITE-BASED DISTANCE COURSES FOR IN-SERVICE TRAINING: The Case of Heads Up! Reading

Jan 01, 2007; Morrison, Johnetta Wade; Raya-Carlton, Paméla; Henk, Jennifer K; Thornburg, Kathy R ... This article discusses the use of distance courses as an in-service training mechanism for early childhood personnel. The authors evaluated the efficacy of the in-service, satellite-based distance course HeadsUp! Reading (HU!R). The analysis of HU!R data revealed that there were no initial ...

Strategies for Sustainable Open and Distance Learning

Jan 01, 2007; Marchessou, François ... Strategies for Sustainable Open and Distance Learning, by Andrea Hope and Patrick Guiton (Eds.) (The Commonwealth of Learning, World Review of Distance Education and Open Learning. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2006, 188 pp. $40.95). It is interesting to note that in the past few months the open ...

Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom

Jan 01, 2007; Rosen, Barbara S ... Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom, by Tomas Lipinski (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005, 240 pp., $42.50). I looked forward to the opportunity to review Copyright Law and the Distance Education Classroom by Tomas Lipinski, as I benefited from his previous writings and ...

CONFERENCE CALENDAR

Jan 01, 2007; Burmeister, Marsha L ... The following conferences may be of interest to the readers of the Quarterly Review of Distance Education. Recommendations for conferences to be listed in future issues may be sent to: burmeist@nova.edu The Teaching Professor 2007, May 19-20, Atlanta, GA: Westin Peachtree Plaza ...