How television production specialists learn distance education skills and knowledge

The purpose of this study was to examine how television‐production specialists, who had no previous experience or educational background in the field of distance education, learned the distance education‐related skills and obtained the knowledge necessary to perform their jobs. The purposive sample for this study comprised 12 full‐time television production specialists who were employed for at least one year at universities across the United States to produce live, interactive, video‐based educational programs, but who, prior to employment at their respective universities, had no experience or educational background in the field of distance education. Qualitative methods, including semi‐structured interviews, observation, and concept maps, were used to collect data. This study found that television production specialists used both incidental and informal learning strategies to learn the necessary skills and knowledge they needed to perform their jobs. Participants learned predominantly by three means: assessing previously held assumptions and beliefs; learning by doing through a trial‐and‐error‐type format; and watching other's videoconference programs. Participants also experienced a ‘mindset change’, brought about by such factors as identifying audience and subject‐matter specialists’ needs, in how they viewed their own performance.     

Transactional distance and interactive television in the distance education of health professionals

Abstract

Distance education, in which learners are remote from the primary educational institution and the teacher, is increasingly delivered via interactive television technology. Moore (1980) described transactional distance between students and faculty in distance education as characterized by dialogue and structure. He hypothesized that high structure and low dialogue yield “remote” transactional distance and low structure and high dialogue yield “close” transactional distance. The variables in the current study were operationally defined following Moore (1973, 665): “A learner's ‘distance’ from his teacher [transactional distance] … is defined as a function of individualization [structure] and dialogue.” Student volunteers (n = 221) in thirteen public health and nursing graduate courses at the University of Hawaii at Manoa responded to an investigator‐developed questionnaire regarding elements of dialogue, structure, and transactional distance in their courses. Principal components and internal consistency reliability analyses verified the presence of three factors: structure, dialogue, and transactional distance. Dialogue was greater in the distance‐format courses than in the traditional‐format courses. Distance‐format courses did not differ from traditional courses on amount of structure or transactional distance.     

Effects of a television distance education course in computer science

This paper presents an analysis of the learning outcomes pertaining to one unit of the undergraduate television distance education course Information Technology. This is a course from the undergraduate programme of computer science of Université Laval. The television distance education course was designed to permit students to interact with dynamic environments that support active learning.     

知识管理在现代远程教育中的应用研究

本文在讨论远程教育领域知识管理的基本理论后,提出了运用学习对象元数据来表征远程网络教育领域的知识和学习对象,在此基础上讨论了四种现代远程教育中知识管理的技术与工具。     

浅谈企业电大开展现代远程开放教育的优势及对策

本以石油企业电大为对象，分析了电大开发远程教育的优势。企业电大开发现代远程开放教育应以企业需求为目的，制订教学计划应突出实践技能的培养，教学中应着重完善质量控制方法。     

Intellectual roots of distance education: a progressive knowledge domain analysis

ABSTRACT

Distance education (DE) is a constantly evolving and advancing field, and as such, its intellectual network and dynamics need to be investigated and explored. In this regard, this study reviewed a total of 1685 articles and 51,940 references through social network analysis for a bibliometric examination of the DE field. The findings indicate that DE is an interdisciplinary field and part of mainstream education. The progressive knowledge domain analysis revealed that the intellectual roots of DE stem from generic social learning theories, after which DE-related theories began to emerge following the foundation of open universities. The research concludes that there was a paradigm shift that resulted from developments in online networked technologies in the 2000s, at which time DE started to gradually evolve into sixth generation ubiquitous DE.     

Issues in the education of TESOL teachers by distance education

Language teacher education by distance (LTED) has become a widespread and important practice in the preservice and in‐service education of teachers, and in language education internationally. The advent of the Internet has combined with developments in other information communication technologies, the globalisation of English, and the marketisation of education to afford a rapid increase in the number of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages) teacher education programs, and greater variety in the ways in which teaching and learning is mediated in these programs. This article reports on an international survey of TESOL teacher education providers, and considers the status of language teaching qualifications earned by distance, changes in the institutional roles of language teacher educators, and the current state of research into LTED.     

Teaching processes in elementary physical education classes taught by specialists and nonspecialists

The purpose of this study was to compare teaching processes in fourth grade elementary physical education classes taught by specialists and nonspecialists (N = 20). Physical education specialists exhibited higher levels of effective teaching behaviors. Differences were found for the total number of practice trials per minute, and for the mean number of appropriate and inappropriate practice trials per minute in classes of specialists and nonspecialists. Relationships also were found between the number of tasks and the number of appropriate practice trials and the total number of practice trials, indicating how teachers structure class influences practice and skill acquisition.     

Challenging knowledge monopoly in education in the U.S. through democratizing knowledge production and dissemination

ABSTRACT

We discuss democratizing knowledge production and dissemination in education illustrated in two parts that challenge the current knowledge monopoly. Our discourse includes (a) problematic cultivation of the status quo in the hierarchy of knowledge value in the U.S. as a component of civic illiteracy and (b) the need for more evidence through developing practice-based research evidence as a counter to the fixation with evidence-based practice in education. We point out a cultivated state of complacency with regard to the societal expectations of the roles of educational practitioners in the U.S. and discuss developing a new status of practitioner research for knowledge democracy. A virtual space for mentoring practitioner researchers with a goal to help them produce and disseminate their research was included as an example of knowledge democracy.     

论远程教育中的心理距离因素

本文在回顾、分析远程教育历史的基础上,提出了远程教育过程中的心理距离的概念和影响,并将之作为一个独立于时空距离的新的维度引入远程教育成效模型.讨论了心理距离因素对远程教育优势发挥的实际制约,提出强化远程教育过程中的师生和学习伙伴关系的结构设计与组织,以期缩短心理距离,优化远程学习氛围,提高远程教育成功率和效率.提出了缩短心理距离的若干原则与可行措施.     

职业教育知识生产中知识教学过程研究

职业教育知识生产中的知识教学本质是知识的职业化理解,以及以此为基础的职业教育教学变革。职业教育知识教学过程是一个面向学生职业技能提升和知识运用的实践过程。在这个过程中,职业教育知识生产中的知识教学内涵性变革、教学组织、教学环境构建、教学过程的开展和教学保障等都要体现出职业特色。     

终身教育与现代远程教育

终身教育概念是进入２１世纪的关键所在。远程教育作为终身教育体系的一个组成部分，有它自身的特点和优势，在教育发展中起着越来越重要的作用。     

远程教育中的联合办学

远程教育已经步入网络教育时代,经济利益和教育商品化的趋势使越来越多的普通大学和远程教育大学投入了远程教育的激烈竞争中来,既发挥不了双方的优势,又造成了教育资源的浪费。因此,双方应该在分析各自优势的情况下,走联合办学的路子。教育主管部门应该多作工作,使激烈的竞争成为有序的竞争,而不是无序的竞争,从而促进远程教育的健康发展。