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Record W1841921524

Women's Experiences as Distance Learners: Access and Technology

2008· article· en· W1841921524 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Susan May

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational journal of e-learning & distance education · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicTeacher Education and Leadership Studies
Canadian institutionsSt. Francis Xavier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDistance educationQualitative researchTeleconferenceSociologyPedagogyPsychologyGender studiesHumanitiesLibrary scienceArtSocial scienceEngineeringComputer scienceTelecommunications
DOInot available

Abstract

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tilizing qualitative research methodology and a feminist framework, I examined women's distance learning experiences. I interviewed nine women from a variety of educational backgrounds and circumstances who had studied a women's studies course by homestudy or teleconferencing from Athabasca University during 1990 and 1991. Distance education for the women interviewed succeeded in extending educational opportunities to them and in dismantling significant barriers that have historically restricted women's access to learning opportunities. Although they praised distance education, the women interviewed unani-mously agreed that distance study "isn't for everyone" and that it is a significantly different experience for female learners than it is for male learners. These women were grateful that communication technologies, despite their imperfections, allowed them to study from their own homes, at times most convenient for their personal schedules. I conclude that fur-ther research is warranted and offer recommendations to improve women's distance study experiences, particularly in women's studies courses. À l'aide d'une méthodologie de recherche qualitative et d'un cadre théo-rique féministe, nous avons examiné les expériences d'apprentissage à distance chez les femmes. Neuf femmes de circonstances et d'antécédents scolaires variés qui étaient inscrites, en 1990 et 1991, à un programme d'études féministes offert par l'université Athabasca et dispensé par corres-pondance ou par téléconférence, ont été interviewées aux fins de cette étude. Elle ont déclaré que la formation à distance avait élargi leurs pers-pectives de formation et leur avait permis de briser les entraves qui ont traditionnellement réduit l'accès des femmes à l'instruction. Tout en faisant l'éloge de l'éducation à distance, elles ont souligné que l'apprentissage à distance "ne convient pas à tout le monde" et ont con-firmé que l'expérience des femmes est ici aussi fort différente de celle des hommes. Elles ont exprimé leur gratitude envers une technologie qui, pour imparfaite qu'elle soit, leur permettait néanmoins d'étudier sans quitter leur foyer, et selon leur horaire personnel. Nous en concluons que des recherches supplémentaires sont justifiées, et proposons quelques recom-mandations susceptibles d'améliorer les expériences d'apprentissage à dis-tance des femmes, notamment en ce qui concerne les études féministes. distance et les sujets s'y rattachant. Les critiques non sollicitées ne seront pas acceptées pour fins de publication.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.008
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.030

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.008
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0070.007
Scholarly communication0.0070.005
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.062
GPT teacher head0.403
Teacher spread0.341 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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