COVID-19 is a strong disruptive force that has not only influenced our global health and
economy but also has changed the way we teach, learn and communicate with our students …

This book is a fairly comprehensive presentation of distance education, how it has
developed and what it is like in the first decade of the twenty-first century. It illuminates its …

This book provides valuable insights into the situation of women in distance education
around the world. A wide variety of evidence from different countries supports the conclusion …

The use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) as an integral part of the design of
distance taught courses raises interesting challenges to our thinking about course design …

After many years of work in distance education I am somewhat puzzled to find that at the
beginning of the twenty-first century there is on the one hand much talk about distance …

This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study that investigated the experiences of
distance learners beginning online Master of Education programmes. The research …

This study draws on the experience of a cohort of 22 multinational and multilingual students
enrolled in a Master in Education (MEd) distance learning program administered by a British …

The popular conception of distance education is of a system in which students receive few of
the consumptive service benefits of their colleagues in full‐time education. In fact, distance …

E-Learning is becoming a popular delivery method across various universities and colleges
in Dubai as the region is experiencing a rapid growth of e-Learning in higher education …

Embarking upon a programme of distance study can be bewildering for students and the
experience compounded by apprehension and uncertainties. Induction is a way of easing …