Quarterly Review of Distance Education

Research that Guides Practice

Edited by: Michael Simonson, Nova Southeastern University and Anymir Orellana, Nova Southeastern University

Indexed in DE HUB

Volume 1 #2, 2000

Who will be the next Charles Martel of Distance Education? Michael Simonson.

Chronicling the Challenges of Web-Basing a Degree Program: A Systems Perspective, Atsusi Hirumi.

Perceived and Actual Student Support Needs in Distance Education, Lya Visser and Yusra Laila Visser.

Toward an Effective Virtual Learning Environment, John T. Burns.

Support of Technology-based Distance Education: Administrators' Attitudes and Perceptions, Pamela A. Havice, Lemuel W. Watson, Tony W. Cawthon, and Susan J. Underwood.

Research Briefs
The Validation of a Measurement Instrument: Teachers' Attitudes Toward the Use of Web Resources in the Classroom: Across Two Cultures, Tiffany A. Koszalka.

Positions of Distance Education Graduates in the Job Market: A Case Study of Open Education Faculty Graduates in Turkey, Ugur Demiray.

Variables Affecting University Academic Achievement in a Distance versus Conventional Education Setting, Afnan N. Darwazeh.

International Review
Around the Globe, Steve Wheeler.

Book Reviews

Teaching at Distance with the Merging Technologies: An Instructional Systems Approach, by Thomas E. Cyrs, with Eugenia D. Conway. Reviewed by Kim E. Dooley.

Teaching and Learning at a Distance: Foundations of Distance Education, by Michael Simonson, Sharon Smaldino, Michael Albright and Susan Zvacek. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill, 2000, 241 pp.). Reviewed by Karen L. Murphy.

Research Abstracts, Eric Plotnick.

Conference Calendar, Marsha L. Burmeister.

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