Student Attitudes Toward Web-Based Courses

Distance education, in a variety of forms has been around for several decades, and a great deal of literature has been generated about the effectiveness of synchronous delivery methods at the university level (Rhodes, 1998). Technological advances in Internet delivery have allowed university course offerings to change from synchronous to asynchronous, and these changes have occurred so rapidly, that Web-based courses have proliferated without significant research into their effectiveness from a student's perspective.…