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A 6 page paper discussing two distance education research efforts and assessing their value for contributing to the advancement of online education. One author decries the lack of quantitative methods used in education research, another focuses on the lack of framework-defining theory in much of today’s current research into distance education. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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decries the lack of quantitative methods used in education research, another focuses on the lack of framework-defining theory in much of todays current research into distance education. The purpose
here is to assess two articles for their usefulness in distance education as it exists today. "Assessing strategies for developing effective and efficient text for distance education: traditional and electronic"
Researcher Francis Dwyer (2003) reports in this article on a review of literature focusing on distance learning, and how the various media currently
being used meet the needs of distance-learning students in the area of text design. This is not a specific study, but rather a study of studies that the author
uses to compare against his own work from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The author uses newer studies to compare against his own work of decades ago, when the
concept of "distance learning" equated to correspondence courses from non-accredited schools of questionable academic merit. All of the authors research from that period centered on on-ground education on a
college campus. In the ensuing years between Dwyers (2003) early research and his current efforts, qualitative research methods have come to be seen
as being "respectable" and as representative of "real" science. During the 1960s and 1970s, that was not the case. Research of any kind was required to be replicatable
and generalizable in order to be seen as being valid, and of course that is not possible in education research. If the same or other researchers use a different
study population, then the collection of individuals comprising that population will be different from those of the original study. Results may be similar, but they may be very different,
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