A Survey of Distance Education Challenges and Technologies

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-20

  Shih, Timothy K ^a   Antoni, Giani D ^b   Arndt, Timothy ^c   Asirvatham, Asirvatham ^d   Chang, Ching Tao ^e   Chee, Yam S ^f   Dow, Chyi Ren ^g   Hung, Jason C ^h   Jin, Qun ⁱ   Jung, Insung ^j   Leong, Hong V ^k   Li, Sheng Tun ^l   Lin, Fuhua ^m   Liu, Jonathan ⁿ   Sala, Nicoletta ^o   Wang, Ying Hong ^p  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Institute for Educational Technologies   (Italy)

^c CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^e National Unlin University of Sci and Tech   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE INSTITUTE OF NORTHERN TAIWAN   (Taiwan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^j Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^k HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^l NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^m ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^p Tamkand University   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

authoring system; CAI; CBT; communication; CSCW; cyber university; distance education; distance learning; elearning; intelligent tutoring; multimedia presentation; video conferencing; virtual classroom; virtual university

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001728325     PISSN: 15393100     EISSN: 15393119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jdet.2003010101     Document Type: Article

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