This paper describes the costs associated with providing library support for a series of distance-education courses at The Ohio State University (OSU). These courses are designed as a pilot program offered by the OSU Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology. Costs to the library are analyzed for document delivery, electronic reserves, reference services, and librarian activities. Also included are ...

UNLABELLED Distance education has emerged to minimize the anxiety of many professionals who need to update their knowledge, but do not have the time and opportunity to travel to educational centers. OBJECTIVES To describe the development of a CD-ROM to provide distance continuing education to basic school teachers that addresses issues related to written language. MATERIAL AND METHODS Previ...

The collaborative writing is an important task in distance education. For this reason, the implementation of one hypertext editor in TIDIA-Ae environment is indispensable. This tool is allowing the content production for all laboratories in TIDIA-Ae project.

For at least the last few decades Australia has enjoyed a reputation of being a leader in distance education and an early adopter of technology for educational purposes. This historical context has also provided a good foundation for the development of e-learning, within both public and private sectors. However, developments in the broader global setting now mean that such leadership is no long...

Since fall 2009, reference librarians at The George Washington University's Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library have been embedded in online classes through Blackboard within the School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The authors sought to determine the types of questions asked of the librarian, with the goal of informing future interactions with distance education classes...

Manuscript received on March 08, 1999. This work was supported in part by CAPES – Brasilia, Brazil. The authors are with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 33431-0991, USA (e-mail:[email protected]; [email protected]). Abstract  One of the weaknesses of most Web-based distance education systems is the lack of adequate, synchro...

In this article we describe the use of mental states approach, more specifically the BDI model, to implement the process of affective diagnosis in an educational environment. We use the psychological OCC model, which is based on the cognitive theory of emotions and is possible to be implemented computationally, in order to infer the learner’s emotions from his actions in the system interface. I...

background and aim: considerable increase in the rate of cesarean section is currently a major health challenge in our country, iran. cesareans are performed mostly without having a medical indication and due to pregnant women’s negative attitude to normal vaginal delivery. this study was conducted to measure the effectiveness of group cognitive behavioral training in changing nulliparous women...

Throughout the paper, the issues of individual differences in web-based learning, also known as online instruction, online training or distance education were examined and implications for designing distance education were discussed. Although the main purpose was to identify differences in learners’ characteristics such as cognitive, affective, physiological and social factors that affect learn...

Traditional forms of assessment used in face-to-face and distance learning education are insufficient to ascertain the learning progress of student and therefore do not provide enough information to detect student learning gaps and improve learning. Another point is that traditional assessment ways rarely involve the student in monitoring his or her own learning through his metacognitive abilit...