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Distance Education: The Complete Guide to Design, Delivery, and Improvement
reviewed by Frederick B. King - 2004
 Title: Distance Education: The Complete Guide to Design, Delivery, and Improvement
Author(s): Judith L. Johnson
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807743739, Pages: 229, Year: 2003
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Distance education is experiencing explosive growth, and Judith L. Johnson has been a part of distance education for over a decade, assessing its impact and success in Maine since 1989. The National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES, 2003) reported that in the academic year 1997-1998, the latest data available at the NCES web site, an estimated 54,470 courses were offered through distance education. This is a more than two-fold increase from 25,730 courses offered during the 1994-95 academic year (NCES, 2000). NCES also reported that although institutions using two-way interactive video and one-way prerecorded video remain essentially the same as in 1994-1995, the “percentage of institutions using asynchronous Internet-based technologies…nearly tripled, from 22 percent of institutions in 1995 to 60 percent of institutions in 1997-98” (2000, p. vi). Allen & Seaman (2003) noted that 90% of all public postsecondary institutions offer at least one online course and approximately 50% of all private institutions offer at least one online course. This movement to distance education is not limited to... (preview truncated at 150 words.)
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- Frederick King
University of Hartford
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FREDERICK B. KING is an assistant professor of Educational Technology at the University of Hartford.
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