Distance and Traditional Education

Authors : Yuliang LIU

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Publication Date : 2002-03-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This case study is designed to investigate how distance education technology affects the instructor’s simultaneously teaching the same course via instructional television insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(ITV); and traditional education insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(face-to-face); formats. This study involved random observations of the instructor in a graduate course in both instructional television and face-to-face classrooms. In addition, an interview with the instructor was conducted to collect more data. This study has suggested that the instructor who teaches the same course in both ITV and traditional education formats exhibits both similarities and differences among the three instructional phases insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(before-class, in-class, and after-class); in both situations. The results of this study will have significant implications for future distance education instructors.
Keywords : Distance education, instructional television instruction, traditional education, instructional phases, and case study