WORKING PROFESSIONALS AS PART-TIME ONLINE LEARNERS

Authors

  • Gregory Hislop

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v4i2.1902

Keywords:

Working Professionals, Part-Time Online Learners, Online Education

Abstract

This paper discusses a completely online graduate professional degree program at Drexel University. The paper provides an overview of the online initiative, including background, program development, and a description of the online environment. Following this, the paper contains a discussion of results of the degree program and proposes some characterizations of online learners and of desirable instructor attributes.

References

Andriole, Stephen J., Lytle, Richard H., and Monsanto, Charlton A. Asynchronous learning networks: Drexel's experience. T.H.E. Journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 97-101, October, 1995.

Hislop, Gregory W. ALN teaching as routine faculty workload. To be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2000.

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne The Virtual Classroom. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co., 1994.

Hislop, Gregory W. Evaluating an asynchronous graduate degree program. Proceedings, Frontiers in Education, Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1997.

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Published

2019-03-19

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2000)

Section

Empirical Studies

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