R. Dwight Laws

TL;DR: Immediate feedback improves performance, while delayed feedback accelerates completion, in secondary distance learners, with implications for best practices in distance learning and a need for further research on feedback timing and student outcomes.

TL;DR: Ten additional factors beyond information technology (IT) or information communications technology (ICT) that merit careful consideration by decision makers as they define their own institutions’ degrees of scalability are identified.

TL;DR: One part of the solution to this larger problem was the use of part-time tutors hired from the university's undergraduate student population, to offer additional content and motivational support to students enrolled in large enrolling courses.

TL;DR: This study focuses on the secondary counselor perspective for students using alternative credit programs, e.g., independent study, evening classes, and summer school, to complement the high school educational experience and profiled the characteristics of successful alternative education programs.