An important touchstone of distance education has been to contribute to the development of
individual learners whatever their life circumstances. The first half of the article provides an …

Expanding global communications over the past decade in the form of the World Wide Web
and the Internet increased the possibility of cultures meeting cultures within distance …

This chapter describes the very practical approach to distance and online language learning
that has allowed the United Kingdom's largest university, The Open University (OU), to …

This chapter presents the context in which my study was situated and against which it needs
to be understood. In Section 1.1, I situate my study vis-à-vis the status and roles of the …

An interdisciplinary field, technology and culture, or social informatics, is part of a larger
body of socio-economic, socio-psychological, and cultural research that examines the ways …

International and local guidelines for designing distance education materials advise
designers to use feedback from students in the redesign of their materials. This study is a …

Aston University is a relatively small institute in Birmingham, UK. It has been conducting
distance-learning TESOL programs (often called online programs in other countries) since …

This study presents and explores the narratives of participants including the author in a ten-
year, international distance learning (DL) collaboration and curriculum development project …

Résumé L'impact de la multiplication des cours en ligne sur la composition démographique
des classes amène les notions de diversité et de multiculturalité au cœur des …

As Moore and Kearsley (2005) suggested, learner success in distance education systems is
associated with one's ability to overcome “distractions” from one's environment to find a …