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Issue 1, Winter 2003
“The challenges facing today’s instructors and administrators are dizzying and it is our hope that the articles found in this journal may help us not only make sense of these new developments but also guide us in our future decision making.”
by Executive Editor, Bernard Robin.
“This study compared female and male students’ progress through an asynchronously delivered Web-based course. Female students engaged earlier, male students remained engaged longer, and female students completed the course sooner than male students.”
by James R. Lindner, Kim E. Dooley, and James W. Hynes — Texas A&M University
“Those of us working in the field of distance learning cannot help but wonder what the future will bring and what new knowledge is needed in this upcoming millennium ... yet the field of distance learning has many voices suggesting what issues to study ... how can we discern which issues are fundamental to best practice and which issues need more exploration in order to encourage productive research?”
Kathy J. Schmidt and Michael J. Sullivan — University of Texas
“Any viable recording procedure would have to be simple, so as to add as little as possible to the pre- and post-class routine of the instructor, be transparent to the students to avoid distraction, need no studio or “crew” and be digitally based so the media produced could be prepared for web dissemination with a minimal amount of effort.”
by Russell Geanangel, Salvadore Baez-Franchesci, John Hazelrigg, and Quang Doan — University of Houston