Internet and Higher Education
2005 Volume 8, Number 2
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 5
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Feelings of alienation and community among higher education students in a virtual classroom
Alfred P. Rovai & Mervyn J. Wighting
Although the professional literature identifies feelings of alienation and low sense of community as factors that help explain relatively low student persistence rates in distance education... More
pp. 97-110
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The role of structure, patterns, and people in blended learning
Michael Derntl & Renate Motschnig-Pitrik
Recently, much e-learning research has been devoted to producing e-content, describing it with metadata, and to constructing e-learning systems. Considerably less attention has been paid to... More
pp. 111-130
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International online management education courses: A study of participation patterns
William Wresch, J.B. Arbaugh & Michael Rebstock
Universities are increasingly involved in international online classes. While such classes provide unique opportunities for students to engage in learning experiences with students of other... More
pp. 131-144
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Integrating emerging topics through online team design in a hybrid communication networks course: Interaction patterns and impact of prior knowledge
Jana Reisslein, Patrick Seeling & Martin Reisslein
An important challenge in the introductory communication networks course in electrical and computer engineering curricula is to integrate emerging topics, such as wireless Internet access and... More
pp. 145-165
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The relationship between problems with technology and graduate students' evaluations of online teaching
Mary K. Tallent-Runnels, William Y. Lan, Wesley Fryer, Julie A. Thomas, Sandi Cooper & Kun Wang
In this study the intent was to determine if the problems with technology that graduate students experience in online classes is related to their evaluations of their instructors. Participants... More
pp. 167-174