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Annette M. Lane; Jennifer Stephens – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2023
Nursing has employed distance education for decades. In the 21st century, distance programs have often been delivered online. This became even more prevalent since the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite the preponderance of online nursing courses, the delivery of courses virtually does not necessarily mean that these offerings are intentionally developed…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Distance Education, Nursing Education, COVID-19
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Baker, Credence; Gentry, James – Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research, 2014
In an era of increasingly hyped Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that seem to evoke feelings of both promise and peril for higher education, many institutions are struggling to find their niche among top-tier Ivy League schools offering courses to thousands of participants for free. While the effectiveness of MOOCs in terms of learning outcomes…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Models, Open Education, Open Universities
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Marshall, Stewart; Kinuthia, Wanjira; Richards, Griff – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2012
The University of the West Indies Open Campus and Athabasca University conducted a pilot workshop to see if open educational resources (OER) could be used to construct curricula. UWIOC was interested in increasing distance education offerings and Athabasca University was interested in expanding programming to offer an online graduate program in…
Descriptors: Institutional Cooperation, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Workshops
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2018
For the forty-first time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Kansas City, Missouri. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two volumes. Volume 1 contains twenty-seven…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
Giguere, Louis – Journal of Distance Education, 2009
In 1997 the British Columbia Open University (BCOU) adopted a virtualization strategy based primarily on twinning off-line independent study distance education courses (textbook-based with study guide and telephone and e-mail tutor support) with alternate online versions (textbook-based with integrated conferencing and communications provided…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Open Universities, Adult Basic Education, Benchmarking
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Luschei, Thomas F.; Dimyati, Surachman; Padmo, Dewi – Distance Education, 2008
The Open University of Indonesia (Universitas Terbuka, UT) has over 450,000 students distributed across a vast, diverse archipelago. UT will play a central role in meeting the requirement that over 1 million primary teachers earn four-year postsecondary degrees by 2015. While the Open University has considerable capacity in print-based and…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Integration