TY - JOUR
AU - Niss, James F.
AB - THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF DISTANCE EDUCATION Vol. 2 No. 2 1988 The Performance of Nonresident Students in the "Economics U$A" Telecourse Paul W. Grimes Joyce E. Nielsen James F. Niss As the number of students enrolled in nonresidential college degree pro- grams increases, questions are being raised concerning the quality of in- struction in courses which are offered through nontraditional methods. One of the most popular and often criticized forms of nontraditional instruc- tion is the telecourse. Criticism of the telecourse delivery system is fre- quently based on early experimentation with televised instruction that often resulted in "talking head" lectures that did not take advantage of the visual nature of the medium. Telecourses designed for the college market have changed dramatically over the years and today reflect a technical quality far superior to earlier generations of televised instruction. Producers of modern college telecourses often develop a variety of auxiliary print and audio learning material to create a "course package." Recent research proj- ects suggest that such telecourse packages can be as educationally effec- tive as more traditional methods of instruction (see Whittington 1987 for a review of the research literature). Given that telecourses have the poten- tial to provide 
TI - Television: The performance of nonresident students in the “economics U$A” telecourse
JF - American Journal of Distance Education
DO - 10.1080/08923648809526622
DA - 1988-01-01
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EP - 43
VL - 2
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