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Reassessing the Assessment of Distance Education Courses

Assessments and evaluations conducted over the past 15 years have attempted to shed light on the academic rigor of distance education courses by considering factors such as the nature of the mediating technology, different instructional approaches and course content. Two characteristics can be discerned amidst the wealth of investigations that have compared distance education with traditional instruction: an emphasis on using data that are student-based and a preoccupation with examining student performance in the semester the distance education course was taken.
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Material Type:
Reference Material
Date Added to MERLOT:
July 22, 2007
Date Modified in MERLOT:
July 22, 2007
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Cathy Swift
Asian American, Native American, Pacific Islander Serving Institution Hispanic Serving Institution
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College General Ed
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English
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