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Tuesday, August 20, 2002
http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deosnews/deosnews12_2.asp Accounting Faculty Members' Perceptions of Distance Learning: An Exploratory Study Michael Mosebach and Richard I. Newmark ABSTRACT: This study measures the perceptions of faculty members who teach accounting with recent distance learning (DL) experience towards DL. Subjects are from universities with nationally recognized DL programs. Seventy-six of the 230 surveys were returned, but only 22 of the respondents have recently taught a DL course, with 15 respondents using interactive television as their primary delivery medium. These faculty members believe their DL courses are equally rigorous in terms of quantity and complexity of material. While subjects generally feel accounting poses no unusual problems for DL delivery, some faculty members feel journal entries and complex solutions are difficult to present via the Internet or interactive television. Other concerns are that students are intimidated by DL media, and interaction and information retention is lower for DL students. Another finding is that accounting departments at these DL-committed universities are slow to adopt DL. Finally, subjects overwhelmingly acknowledge that their opinion towards DL changed after actually teaching a DL course....
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