Readings in Distance Education Number 7 Web-Based Communications, the Internet, and Distance Education Edited by Michael G. Moore and Geoffrey T. Cozine Released August 2000

Online, Web-based communication—seen by many as the key technological innovation of the last decade of the twentieth century—has attracted the attention of educators and trainers to the idea of distance education in a way that no earlier technology managed to do. With explosive growth of the technology, knowledge of how to best apply it—in designing and delivering instructional programs and in facilitating learner-instructor and learner-learner interactions—lags very far behind. The American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE) has published a growing number of articles related to Web-based delivery of distance education, and a selection of these have been brought together in this book of readings. They are offered here in a single volume in the hope that they will prove valuable in informing and guiding readers—whether instructors, administrators, researchers, or students—as they enter and begin to explore this exciting world of online distance education. We hope that, as readers understand better what is known about distance education via the Web, it will become more clear how much is not known, and that, by linking the questions about the application of this new technology to the theories and knowledge acquired through research in earlier technologies, the general quality of research and practice in this field will be advanced. —Michael G. Moore

Table of Contents

Preface

Distance Learning: Trends in the US
 Michael G. Moore

Articles (Link to Abstracts)

Performance and Perceptions of Distance Learners in Cyberspace
   Peter Navarro and Judy Shoemaker

Distance Education for Dentists: Improving the Quality of Online Instruction
   Heiko Spallek, Peter Berthold, Diarmuid B. Shanley, and Rolf Attstrom

Deterrents to Participation in Web-Based Continuing Professional Education
   Kathy J. Perdue and Thomas Valentine

A Distributed Collaborative Science Learning Laboratory on the Internet
   Laura R. Winer, Martine Chomienne, and Jesœs V‡zquez-Abad

An Argument for the Application of Copyright Law to Distance Education
   Tomas A. Lipinski

Factors Influencing Interaction in an Online Course
   Charalambos Vrasidas and Marina Stock McIsaac

Perceptions and Effects of Image Transmissions during Internet-Based Training
   Robert A. Wisher and Christina K. Curnow

Methodology for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Web-Based Telelearning: Case Study of the Bell Online Institute
   Tammy Whalen and David Wright

Being Unreal: Epistemology, Ontology, and Phenomenology in a Virtual Educational World
   Roy Lundin

Copyright Law, the Internet, and Distance Education
   Anita Colyer

Online Graduate Degrees: A Review of Three Internet-Based Master’s Degree Offerings
   Robert W. Strong and E. Glynn Harmon

Grass Roots

Implementing an Internet Tutorial for Web-Based Courses
   Sherri Smith and Andrea Benscoter

A Method for Evaluation of a Course Delivered via the World Wide Web in Brazil
   M™nica G. M. Magalh‹es and Dietrich Schiel

Installation and Use of a Remote Electronic Bulletin Board in Teaching a Graduate-Level Course
   C. Hugh Gardner and Murray H. Tillman

Interview

Speaking Personally with A. Frank Mayadas
   Gary E. Miller

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