Perspectives of online anatomy teachers: A neglected study population struggles with the invisible student

Abstract

Distance education describes the mechanism by which students learn without in-person events and study at a time and place of their choosing (Bates, 2005). Given the necessary role of technology in modern day distance education, Moore and Kearsley (2012) describe distance education as "teaching and planned learning by which the teaching normally occurs in a different place from learning, requiring communication through technologies as well as special institutional organization." Simonson et al. (2011) elaborate on which types of connections are made possible by technologies, defining distance education as a format where individuals in the learning group are

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