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Tuesday, August 13, 2002
http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deosnews/deosnews11_10.asp A Tangled Web Indeed: The Difficulty of Developing a Research Agenda for Distance Education Zane L. Berge For a discipline to be recognized as a serious field of study, a body of research involving its basic tenants, structures, and core domain of knowledge must be examined on a regular basis. "Research literature of a discipline shows the culture of the discipline ... the specialised knowledge and examples of research procedures that are unique to the discipline" (Mishra 1998, p. 267). Holmberg (1987), in summarizing early efforts in distance education research, stated that, while distance education was over 100 years old, research in distance education did not appear until after World War II. In fact, with few exceptions, the earliest research reports, articles, bibliographies, and monographs were published in the 1960s. This article reviews the basic structure of distance education research as it currently exists in the literature....
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