Research paper
Making the Connection: Moore’s Theory of Transactional Distance and Its Relevance to the Use of a Virtual Classroom in Postgraduate Online Teacher Education
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- Title
- Making the Connection: Moore’s Theory of Transactional Distance and Its Relevance to the Use of a Virtual Classroom in Postgraduate Online Teacher Education
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- University of Waikato
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This study explored the use of the Web-based virtual environment, Adobe Connect Pro, in a postgraduate online teacher education programme at the University of Waikato. It applied the tenets of Moore’s Theory of Transactional Distance (Moore, 1997) in examining the efficacy of using the virtual classroom to promote quality dialogue and explored how both internal and external structural elements related to the purpose and use of the classroom affected the sense of learner autonomy. The study pr...
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- Research paper
- Research format
- Journal article
- Date created
- 2011
- Creator
- Falloon, Garry
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5283
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- online / synchronous / virtual / communication / community / classroom / distance / learning
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This article has been published in the journal: Journal of Research on Technology in Education, vol 43, no. 3 © 2011, ISTE ® (International Society for Technology in Education), All rights reserved.
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