Education, Distance - Economics
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Opening education.

31 Dec 2008 Spurred by the publication of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare in 2002, the open educational resources (OER) movement, which has rapidly expanded and captured the imagination and energy of millions of creators and users ... Read more...

Online education today.

31 Dec 2008 Online education is established, growing, and here to stay. It is creating new opportunities for students and also for faculty, regulators of education, and the educational institutions themselves. Much of what is being learned by the practitioners ... Read more...

Enhancing communication skills for pediatric visits through on-line training using video demonstrations.

9 Feb 2008 BACKGROUND: Training in communication skills for health professionals is important, but there are substantial barriers to individual in-person training for practicing clinicians. We evaluated the feasibility and desirability of on-line training and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Education, Distance - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Distance learning works when gas and airfares skyrocket. 27 Feb 2009
• Opening education. 31 Dec 2008
• Online education today. 31 Dec 2008
• Enhancing communication skills for pediatric visits through on-line training using video demonstrations. 9 Feb 2008
• A new hybrid model for exploring the adoption of online nursing courses. 13 Aug 2007
• Deep in the data mine. AMA sales of doc info lead to partnership questions. 2 Jun 2007
• The return on investment in online education. 30 Dec 2006
• Let's reach all of the market for health administration education: design, development, and delivery issues in distance delivery. 30 Dec 2005
• Effective e-learning for health professionals and students--barriers and their solutions. A systematic review of the literature--findings from the HeXL project. 29 Nov 2005
• Distance learning: investing in employees' futures. 30 Aug 2005
• Kansas to rule on copyright for lecture notes. 23 Aug 2005
• Who owns your work? 23 Aug 2005
• Oncology nurses explore distance learning and other models of education. 30 Jul 2005
• Educational technologies and the teaching of ethics in science and engineering. 29 Jun 2005
• R.T.s' interest in advanced-level certification and distance learning. 29 Jun 2005
• Making the grade: online training as a cost effective and clinically efficient alternative in staff education. 30 Dec 2004
• Distance assisted training in sub-Saharan Africa: a program evaluation. 30 Aug 2004
• The prohibitive costs of accessing evidence online. 28 Feb 2004
• LoColms: an innovative approach of enhancing traditional classroom form of education by promoting web-based distance learning in the poorer countries. 30 Oct 2003
• Videoconferencing technology capabilities. Distance education support for geographically isolated EMS providers. 30 Aug 2003

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Technical information about 'Education, Distance'

Definition: Education via communication media (correspondence, radio, television, computer networks) with little or no in-person face-to-face contact between students and teachers. (ERIC Thesaurus, 1997)

Descriptor UI: D020375

Alternative terms: Education, Distance; Distance Education; Distance Learning; Learning, Distance; Correspondence Courses; Correspondence Course; Course, Correspondence;

Related Mesh Headings: Computer Communication Networks;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.195;

History Note: 99; for CORRESPONDENCE COURSES see EDUCATION 1978-98

Technical Notes: do not confuse with COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION