Making the Connection: Moore’s Theory of Transactional Distance and Its Relevance to the Use of a Virtual Classroom in Postgraduate Online Teacher Education

About this item

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

Content partner

University of Waikato

Collection

ResearchCommons@Waikato

Description

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...

Read more

Format

Research paper

Research format

Journal article

Date created

2011

Creator

Falloon, Garry

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5283

Related subjects

online / synchronous / virtual / communication / community / classroom / distance / learning

What is the copyright status of this item?

All Rights Reserved

This item is all rights reserved, which means you'll have to get permission from University of Waikato before using it.

More Information

University of Waikato has this to say about the rights status of this item:

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.

What can I do with this item?

You must always check with University of Waikato to confirm the specific terms of use, but this is our understanding:

Non-infringing use

NZ Copyright law does not prevent every use of a copyright work. You should consider what you can and cannot do with a copyright work.

No sharing

You may not copy and/or share this item with others without further permission. This includes posting it on your blog, using it in a presentation, or any other public use.

No modifying

You are not allowed to adapt or remix this item into any other works.

No commercial use

You may not use this item commercially.