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- Title: How a Novice Adult Online Learner Experiences Transactional Distance (Report)
- Author : Quarterly Review of Distance Education
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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INTRODUCTION As Pat, a novice adult online learner expressed, adult learners return to higher education with complex, contradictory feelings that help form their identities as learners (Wojecki, 2007). Online environments present adult learners with an "inevitable" identity adjustment because of changes in the nature of communication and interaction (Garrison, Cleveland-Innes, & Fung, 2004, p. 61). The changes can be understood through the lens of transactional distance theory, which allows for the analysis of the experiences of adults who are becoming online learners.