Reading and Technology: Viable Partners for Multiple Educational Settings: Telecommunications and Reading Instruction

Connie L. Dillon

The predominant telecommunications technologies, video and computer-based telecommunications, have multiple applications for reading education. The telecomputers of tomorrow will process, store, create and transmit images which can be distributed...

A Case Study: Faculty Involvement and Telecommunications. ASHE 1987 Annual Meeting Paper

Connie L. Dillon

The role of telecommunications in higher education is discussed, along with a faculty involvement-based model for implementing a media/telecommunications service at Cameron University. Experience at the university supports the application of the...

Comparing Distance Learning and Classroom Learning: Conceptual Considerations

Patricia L. Smith; Connie L. Dillon

American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (1999) pp. 6–23

Proposes a schema system based on media-attribute theory that can be used to classify both media and delivery systems based on research related to learning and motivation in distance education. Comparative studies must explain why and how the media...

Toward a Systems Theory of Distance Education: A Reaction

Patricia L. Smith; Connie L. Dillon

American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 13, No. 2 (1999) pp. 32–36

Contends that comparison studies offer one important view from which to frame questions about the study of distance education. Responds to Farhad Saba's ("Toward a Systems Theory of Distance Education") major premises about distance-education...

Faculty: The Neglected Resource in Distance Education

Connie L. Dillon; Stephen M. Walsh

American Journal of Distance Education Vol. 6, No. 3 (1992) pp. 5–21

Reviews research related to faculty in distance education and discusses issues concerning faculty participation in distance education, including a theoretical framework of distance education, context of the research studies, faculty characteristics, ...