Pedagogical implications of working with doctoral students at a distance

Autor: Yolande Muschamp, Felicity Wikeley
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Distance Education. 25:125-142
ISSN: 1475-0198
0158-7919
DOI: 10.1080/0158791042000212495
Popis: This paper discusses the issues raised when delivering professional doctorate programmes to students at a distance. It explores the importance in doctoral study of engagement with a research community, what a "community of practice" might mean within the academic context and the problematic nature of working with students already operating within their own professional context and engaging with another community of practice—that of the researcher. It uses the example of a Doctor in Education (EdD) programme to explore the implications of using virtual learning environments to enable students at a distance to participate in the programme. It draws the conclusions that, far from being a new form of delivery, creating opportunities for students to engage with an academic community of practice requires tutors to use tried and tested pedagogical strategies in a new context. In doing so we use Moore's (1993, in Jung, British Journal of Educational Technology, 32(5), 525–534, 2001) concept of transactional dista...
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