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Article: A distance education learning environment survey.
- Article from:
- Academic Exchange Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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Abstract
This paper describes the research of psychosocial learning environments in post-secondary distance education using a recently validated survey instrument--the Distance Education Learning Environment Survey (DELES). The instrument validation data and study results are presented.
Introduction
Distance education has become a firmly embedded component of the higher education landscape in the last decade. Networked digital communication has facilitated an explosive growth in this relatively new method of reaching learning populations to the point that the higher education trend to produce distance education courses and programs has been ...