Evaluating
Distance Education
Questions not answered
to date by studies concerned with DL education (source: Knowledge Quest,
March/April 1998, p. 59):
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Does the virtual environment
transform traditional instructional modes into siginificantly different
experiences?
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To what degree does
technology support course goals?
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Who are the students
that are most likely to select an online course and why?
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Which students are
likely to succeed in a distributed learning environment?
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Do students succeed
because of the technology, or in spite of it?
Key resources for
information regarding the DL phenomenon:
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Internet University
home page. http://www.caso.com/iuhome.html
Indexes more than 2300 online college courses in twenty-plus disciplines
offered by sixty-five institutions of higher education.
