Randy Garrison examines "the foundational principles and practices of distance education in the context of recent developments in the areas of online learning." He writes "In the current culture of connectivity, the relevance of distance education may well be dependent upon developing and communicating a coherent theory that can accommodate transformational developments reflected in [online learning (OLL)] innovations." For example, "collaborative constructivist approaches to teaching and learning are central to developments in OLL in higher education. However, such approaches are problematic in industrial distance education." It's a good paper, but I think his approach - which, for example, depict online learning as "a direct descendant of instructional technology and computer-assisted instruction," is rooted in literature but not actual practice (such as, say, my own, which is rooted in distance education and online gaming). Via Tony Bates, who points to more articles from the recent issue of the Journal of Distance Education.
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