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Making Distance Visible: Assembling Nearness in an Online Distance Learning Programme
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Ross, Jen; Gallagher, Michael Sean; Macleod, Hamish – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
Online distance learners are in a particularly complex relationship with the educational institutions they belong to (Bayne, Gallagher, & Lamb, 2012). For part-time distance students, arrivals and departures can be multiple and invisible as students take courses, take breaks, move into independent study phases of a programme, find work or…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Part Time Students, Proximity
Profile of Graduate and First-Professional Students: Trends from Selected Years, 1995-96 to 2007-08. Web Tables. NCES 2011-219
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Chen, Xianglei – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Enrollment in graduate and first-professional education in the United States has increased in recent years--from about 2 million students in fall 1995 to more than 2.6 million students in fall 2007 (Snyder, Dillow, and Hoffman 2009, tables 206 and 207). Increasing enrollments overall raise questions regarding the types of students entering…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Profiles, Graduate Students, Professional Education
Protecting Health and Saving Lives: The Part-Time/Internet-Based Master of Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Bruce, Linda; Gresh, Kathy; Vanchiswaran, Rohini; Werapitiya, Deepthi – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2007
This article discusses the part-time/Internet-based Master of Public Health (MPH) program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was the first school of public health in the United States to offer a Master of Public Health program via the Internet. The JHSPH MPH Program…
Descriptors: Public Health, Internet, Masters Programs, Part Time Students
Changes in Latitude: Distance Learning at the University of Illinois.
Gibson, William; Koenig, Melissa – Illinois Libraries, 1995
Examines the Fridays Only part-time/distance education program of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois. Provides a history of the program and a composite of a typical day for the Fridays Only student; discusses strengths and weaknesses from the perspectives of the students, faculty, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Distance Education, Graduate Students, Graduate Study
A Quasi-Experimental Study of Three Online Learning Courses in Computing
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Connolly, Thomas M.; MacArthur, Ewan; Stansfield, Mark; McLellan, Evelyn – Computers & Education, 2007
This paper presents the results of a 3-year quasi-experimental study of three Masters courses in computing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which the teaching and learning of these courses were enhanced by being developed and delivered in an online format as compared to face-to-face full-time and part-time delivery. Key…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Dropout Rate, Distance Education, Online Courses
M.B.A. by Television.
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American Association of State Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC. – 1988
This report describes Ball State University's MBA/TV program in which the College of Business offers a structured series of telecourses making it easy for students to acquire a graduate business education (MBA) where they live and work. It utilizes a statewide educational communications system called the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunication…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Business Administration Education, Continuing Education, Distance Education