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Real time, perceived time and time online : a review of student experiences of time over thirty years of distance and online education

van der Klooster, Marie and Coldwell, Jo 2005, Real time, perceived time and time online : a review of student experiences of time over thirty years of distance and online education, in 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education Conference Proceedings, Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, T.H., pp. 1-14.

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Title Real time, perceived time and time online : a review of student experiences of time over thirty years of distance and online education
Author(s) van der Klooster, Marie
Coldwell, Jo
Conference name Hawaii International Conference on Education (3rd : 2005 : Honolulu, Hawaii)
Conference location Honolulu, Hawaii
Conference dates 4-7 January 2005
Title of proceedings 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education Conference Proceedings
Editor(s) Burge, Andrew
Publication date 2005
Conference series Hawaii International Conference on Education
Start page 1
End page 14
Publisher Hawaii International Conference on Education
Place of publication Honolulu, T.H.
Keyword(s) Education -- Congresses
Summary This paper examines how students use and perceive time when studying in distance education modes and what affects this perception of time and the reality of time. We examine 30 years of student involvement on distance and online education, their comments on both their learning experiences, and the technology requirements of distance education/online learning. Our University has been involved in distance education since its formation in 1974. The online technologies offer increasingly sophisticated and immersive experiences for our students, both on campus and off campus, but many of our students continue to complain of time squeeze, and fail to predict the time it will take them to complete our subjects. We research how the technologies we use for online learning are contributing to this time squeeze perception and the student's "real" time to learn.
Research is drawn from both the Australian Bureau of Statistics and surveys of our students' experiences (we have 32,000 students online, with single online classes of over 1300 students), to examine student use and perceptions of their available time to study and how the technologies used in online learning affect this.
Notes Reproduced with the specific permission of the copyright owner.
ISSN 1541-5880
Language eng
Field of Research 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed
Copyright notice ©2005, Hawaii International Conference on Education
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30005582

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