1. Purchasing Education on the Internet
   As distance learning and the Internet have become popular, teaching courses over the Internet will become common. Preparing and teaching a distance learning class over the Internet is considerably different than teaching in the traditional classroom. This article presents a case study in developing and conducting a purchasing class over the Internet. It describes how class information, lectures, and class discussions were conveyed to the student on a Web site and how homework and individual correspondence were transmitted by e-mail. Additionally, the differences between traditional classrooms and Internet-based courses are discussed, and general information on distance learning is presented.

2. Student perceptions of the affective experiences encountered in distance learning courses
   The purpose of this study was to compare the effective perceptions of remote-site distance learning students, host-site distance learning students, and traditional classroom students towards the experiences they encounter while taking courses

3. A Meta-Analysis of Three Types of Interaction Treatments in Distance Education
   This meta-analysis of the experimental literature of distance education compares different types of interaction treatments with other DE instructional treatments. Interaction Treatments are the instructional and/or media conditions designed into DE courses, which are intended to facilitate student-student, student-teacher, or student-content interactions.

4. Where did distance education go wrong?
   Distance education (DE) practices around the world use a wide range of audio-visual technologies to overcome the lack of direct contact between teachers and students. These are not universally adopted by DE teachers, however, nor even encouraged by their institutions. This article discusses the organisational attitudes that can lead to outdated methods being maintained and successful ones abandoned, and it suggests that, just as educational television and programmed learning were supplanted in previous decades, so the World Wide Web could be abandoned as a viable education medium in the foreseeable future and replaced by more widely available media such as the cell phone.

5. Motivating learners in distance learning: Do we need a new theory of learner support?
   This paper calls for a new theory of learner support in distance learning based on recent findings in the fields of learning and motivational psychology. It surveys some current learning motivation theories and proposes that models drawn from the relatively new field of Positive Psychology, such as the 'Strengths Approach', together with Dweck's Self Theory and Anderson's insistence on proactive support, could be developed into a 'Proactive Motivational Support' theory.

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