Thanks Denise! This article was helpful because I am doing my dissertation on "Edutainment & Convergence: How Entertainment Techniques Can Be Utilized In Higher Education." This article is interesting because it mentions a fact that I have discovered in my research since 9/2003 when I began my doctoral program in higher education administration: there is only limited meaningful empirical research to guide and enhance the quality of distance learning. Australia, Canada and Great Britain appear to be ahead of us here in the United States on applying distance learning. In fact, most of the meaningful research that I found that specifically helped me emanated from those nations. This does not mean that the U.S. does not have some success stories. However, the U.S. appears to have allowed distance learning, especially online learning, to become dominated by for profit institutions which may be a problem. Specifically, because of this problem, I am investigating another model. I am looking at the technology and entertainment practitioners as my subjects for my qualitative study. After graduation or if I receive funding, I will hire and find a great quantitative researcher/statistician and I will do a larger study, and from that sample I will continue my qualitative efforts. Since I already work as a producer/director/writer, I know fellow practitioners in Hollywood, Houston/San Antonio, Miami/Palm Beach and here in the Washington/Baltimore area. I have conducted a few pilot studies and I am working on an interactive website. If you know of any articles that you believe can help me, please forward them to me. I really want to contact James Gee because he has some provocative thoughts on edutainment. It may not be a panacea but it has some merits. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Roversi Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 4:43 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] suggestions for lurking researcher? Denise N. Rall wrote:
Taylor, J. C. (2002?). "Teaching and learning online: the workers, the lurkers and the shirkers. "pdf file. Taylor was either at the University of Southern Queensland or gave the paper there.
Google is your friend: http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/CRIDAL/cridala2002/speeches/taylor.pdf Regards Antonio _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/