Faculty perceptions of interactive television instructional strategies: Implications for training

Teaching Styles of Interactive Television Instructors: A Descriptive Study

“…Several studies have reported that distance education instructors resort to traditional, teacher-centered teaching styles (Barker and Patrick 1989;Bozik 1996;Dillon, Hengst, and Zoller 1991;Gehlauf, Shatz, and Frye 1991;Parisot 1997). The purpose of this study was to further identify links between theory and practice by providing current information about teaching styles of university instructors who teach via interactive television-a form of delivering distance education that employs audio-video interactive teleconferencing capabilities and real-time communication between instructors and students at multiple classroom sites (Garrison 1989;James and Gardner 1995;McGlothlin 2001;Miller 1995;Willis 1993).…”

“…The development of learner-centered skills in course planning, delivery, and evaluation-including methods of instruction, teaching activities, timing, interaction, feedback, supplemental materials, and evaluation-are believed to be essential to effective distance instruction (Belanger and Jordan 2000;Verduin and Clark 1991). Many researchers and educators have emphasized the importance of employing learner-centered instructional strategies to reduce social and psychological distance between learners and the instructor (Beaudoin 1990;Burge 1988;Dillon and Walsh 1992;Gehlauf, Shatz, and Frye 1991;Purcell-Robertson and Purcell 2000;Repman and Logan 1996).…”

“…Effective distance teaching is believed to revolve around a learner-centered system of instruction (Beaudoin 1990;Dillon and Walsh 1992;Gehlauf, Shatz, and Frye 1991) "that demonstrate[s] a bias for direct learner involvement and participation throughout the process" (Ostendorf 1997, 51). Learner-centeredness is a view of distance teaching in which the learner fully participates in the teaching-learning process (Burge 1988).…”

Designing Effective Electronic Distance Education Programs for K-12 Staff Development

“…In addition, research by Wilkes (1989), Gehlauf, Shatz, and Frye (1991), Smith (1986), and Verduin and Clark (1991) identified two additional factors that affect the perceived effectiveness of EDE inservice programs. First, the comfort level that teachers have with technology-specifically, interactive television technology-can result in an evaluation focused on the technological aspects of the program and not on the content or presenter.…”

Constructs that contribute to student satisfaction for participating in graduate level courses delivered by full motion interactive fiber optic communications network

“…The vast majority of these studies found no overall differences in student outcomes (Biner. Dean & Meillinger, 1994;Gehlauf, Frye. & Shatz.…”