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The Journal of Distance Education / Revue de l'ducation Distance

Sep 11, 2013 Volume 27, Number 1

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Number of articles: 8

  1. Quality assurance in distance education and e-Learning: Challenges and solutions from Asia.

    Tina Benevides

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  2. Virtual Charter Schools: Realities and Unknowns

    Daniela Torre, Vanderbilt University

    Virtual charter schools have emerged over the last decade as an increasingly popular alternative to traditional public schooling. They present a host of new policy problems that need to be... More

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  3. Developing Asynchronous Online Courses: Key Instructional Strategies in a Social Metacognitive Constructivist Learning Trajectory

    Margaret Niess, Oregon State Univrsity; Henry Gillow-Wiles, Oregon State University

    This qualitative, design-based research effort describes an empirically supported proposal for a comprehensive set of best instructional practices immersed in a learning trajectory, outlining the... More

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  4. Cognitive Presence in A Virtual Learning Community: An EFL Case

    Sayyed Alavi & Mahboubeh Taghizadeh, University of Tehran

    This study aimed to investigate the existence of cognitive presence as one of the elements of Community of Inquiry framework in virtual centers of undergraduate students of science and technology. ... More

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  5. Dissertations at a Distance: Students’ Perceptions of Online Mentoring in a Doctoral Program

    Swapna Kumar, Melissa Johnson & Truly Hardemon, University of Florida

    The purpose of this research was to identify best practices in online mentoring used in an online doctoral program to mentor doctoral students through their dissertation. During semi-structured... More

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  6. A Review of Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology

    Lorraine Carter, Nipissing University

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  7. Dissertations at a Distance: Students' Perceptions of Online Mentoring in a Doctoral Program

    Swapna Kumar, Melissa Johnson & Truly Hardemon

    The purpose of this research was to identify best practices in online mentoring used in an online doctoral program to mentor doctoral students through their dissertation. During semi-structured... More

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  8. Developing Asynchronous Online Courses: Key Instructional Strategies in a Social Metacognitive Constructivist Learning Trajectory

    Margaret Niess & Henry Gillow-Wiles

    This qualitative, design-based research study resulted in a proposal for a comprehensive set of best instructional practices immersed in a learning trajectory, outlining the tools, processes and... More

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