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Margaret Miller Butcher (2002).
McLuhan revisited: Adaptive instructional strategies for interactive television.
University of Missouri - Columbia.
Abstract
Some forms of distance education have been in existence for more than a century and as technologies progress, education becomes more accessible to many types of students who historically were not likely to complete their college educations. More mature and geographically-bound rural students are turning to distance education for the completion of their undergraduate and graduate degrees. Interactive television, or ITV, is one delivery method often used by colleges and universities to simulate the face-to-face classroom. The purpose of this set of eight qualitative case studies was to find out how some professors at a Midwestern university's virtual network adapted their face-to-face classes to ITV classes. Informant instructors were interviewed and observed in face-to-face and ITV sections to learn how their teaching strategies differed or stayed the same. Three dominant themes emerged from the data: (1) the need for learner-centered instructional strategies, (2)the need for structured social interaction in ITV classes, and (3) the need for training opportunities and flexibility from the administration or governing body of the institution. Although the delivery medium employed in the ITV sections may affect teaching strategies used by the informant instructors, overwhelming evidence that the medium shaped the message or the strategies of the informant instructors was not present.
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