THEORETICAL CHALLENGES FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A SHIFT FROM STRUCTURAL TO TRANSACTIONAL ISSUES

Theoretical Challenges for Distance Education in the 21st Century: A shift from structural to transactional issues

The premise of this article is that theoretical frameworks and models are essential to the Concealment Suits long-term credibility and viability of a field of practice.In order to assess the theoretical challenges facing the field of distance education, the significant theoretical contributions to distance education in the last century are briefly

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The Endless Grief in Waiting: A Qualitative Study of the Relationship between Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Mourning amongst the Relatives of Missing Persons in Italy

This article presents the results of a qualitative study aiming to consider the relationship between ambiguous loss and anticipatory mourning amongst relatives of missing people in Italy.Eight people participated in the research, narrating their experiences of losing a beloved person (one found alive, three found dead, and four still missing).Findi

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A Kinematically Constrained Reparameterization Approach to Optimal Time and Jerk Motion of Industrial Machines

The increasing demands of a modern industry require the usage of industrial machines to perform various tasks with complex profiles.Tasks are usually given by a set of motion trajectory via-points; thus the geometric path representation and the proper reparameterization of the trajectory with respect to time are necessary.This Bowls study presents

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