Full Description
Distance Learning is for leaders, practitioners, and decision makers in the fields of distance learning, e'learning, telecommunications, and related areas. It is a professional journal with applicable information for those involved with providing instruction to all kinds of learners, of all ages, using telecommunications technologies of all types. Stories are written by practitioners for practitioners with the intent of providing usable information and ideas. Articles are accepted from authors, new and experienced, with interesting and important information about the effective practice of distance teaching and learning.
Distance Learning is published quarterly. Each issue includes eight to ten articles and three to four columns, including the highly regarded 'And Finally...' column covering recent important issues in the field and written by Distance Learning editor, Michael Simonson. Articles are written by practitioners from various countries and locations, nationally and internationally.
Contents
Featured Articles
The Keys to Online Learning For Adults: The Six Principles of Andragogy, Part III; Wendy Conaway and Barbara Zorn-Arnold.
The CreationStation: An Innovative Approach for Producing Instructional Technology and Distance Education; Rafael Giraldo.
Improving Distance Education for Disabled Students: Making the GRADE; Marilyn A. Goodrich.
Introducing Distance Learning into Jamaica's Technical Vocational Education and Training System: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats; Roxanne Hinds.
Georgia Virtual School: Student Success in a Computer-Generated World; Valencia H. Ingram.
Do Personal Response Systems Improve Learning? Steven E. Gregor and Gregory B. Muscelli.
Columns
Ends and Means: Resources and Factors to Consider When Designing New Online Programs; Natalie B. Milman.
Try This: A Surging Education Sector: Online Learning for High School Through College; Errol Craig Sull.
Ask Errol! Errol Craig Sull.
And Finally... Assumptions and Distance Education; Michael Simonson.
