This article systematically discusses the design of a distance educational supporting platform, RIDEE, for performing real-time and interactive distance educational activities over a high-speed network, by summarizing the requirements for RIDEE and giving its hardware and software architecture. Several core parts and subsystems of RIDEE had been developed. RIDEE’s effectiveness has been verifie...

This paper presents a platform for the development and execution of synchronous co-operative shared applications in a distributed education environment. Even though several co-operative environments are existing nowadays, specific problems in real student environments are not treated satisfactorily. Students often have to deal with unstable network connections and low bandwidths; they are using...

This article describes a practical approach to judging the nature and quality of critical discourse in a computer conference. A model of a critical community of inquiry frames the research. A core concept in defining a community of inquiry is cognitive presence. In turn, the practical inquiry model operationalizes cognitive presence for the purpose of developing a tool to assess critical discou...

distance learning is expanding and replacing the traditional academic medical settings. managing trauma patients seems to be a prerequisite skill for medical students. this study has been done to evaluate the efficiency of distance learning on performing the initial assessment and management in trauma patients, compared with the traditional learning among senior medical students. one hundred an...

Theological schools are increasingly exploring online distance education as a mode of course delivery. Yet while online course delivery has the potential for effective, deep learning it can also have a number of pitfalls. This article introduces online distance education and examines in detail the pedagogical possibilities for online learning by providing a number of examples drawn from online ...