Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

This book is a fairly comprehensive presentation of distance education, how it has
developed and what it is like in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It illuminates its …

This article discusses in its first part three common misconceptions related to the operation
of distance education providers in the digital age: The tendency to relate to e-learning as the …

The aim of this study is to look into the listening comprehension issues that third-year
students in the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Van Lang University have while learning …

The new information and communication technologies affect currently most spheres of life,
including higher education environments. Their effects are most likely to grow in the future …

We discuss the development of an instructional design model, WisCom (Wisdom
Communities), based on socio‐constructivist and sociocultural learning philosophies and …

T his using chapter a case explores study of the the experiences impact of blended of the
University learning on of Glamorgan higher education,(UoG) in Wales. It locates UoG's …

This personal review of research into distance higher education indicates the large quantity
and variable quality of research in this field. The article focuses on research that identifies …

This paper presents the findings of a mixed methods study conducted in the context of
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). More specifically, it focuses on the staff development …

Design-based research is proposed as a strategy to address the need for innovation in
educational contexts. The article argues the case for increased and more effective research …