Assessing the Comparability of Classroom Environments in Graduate Social Work Education Delivered via Interactive Instructional Television

Videoconferencing: A Viable Teaching Strategy for Social Work Education?

“…undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level), course content (practice, research methods, substance abuse, social policy, international social work and child welfare). The results suggest that ITV was viewed by students as not compromising instructor-student communication, instructional quality or the amount that students learned (Weinbach et al, 1984;Forster & Rehner, 1998;Patchner et al, 1998;Petracchi, 1998;Coe & Elliot, 1999;Johnson, 1999;Freddolino & Sutherland, 2000;Huff, 2000;Kleinpeter & Potts, 2000a, 2000bPotts & Hagan, 2000;Glezakos & Lee, 2001;Petracchi & Patchner, 2001).…”

History and Development of Instructional Technology and Media in Social Work Education

“…An early example is the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg, which established a part-time MSW program at their Gulf Coast campus 60 miles to the south. Other social work schools using interactive television (ITV) include the University of Pittsburgh (Patchner, Petracchi, & Wise, 1999;Petracchi & Patchner, 2000), Michigan State University (Freddolino, 1999;Freddolino & Sutherland, 2000), the University of Minnesota (Hollister & Kim, 2001;Hollister & McGee, 2000;Rooney, Izaksonas, & Macy, 1999), California State University, Long Beach (Potts & Kleinpeter, 2001), and the University of South Carolina (Coe & Gandy, 1999;Dalton, 2001).…”

Comparison of Student Outcomes in a Campus and a Distributed Learning Class

“…It provides access to learning regardless of location and schedules (Fletcher, Tobias, & Wisher, 2007). Many of today's students are older with employment and families, and are unable to commute to university locations to attend class (Freddolino & Sutherland, 2000). The university's DL social work curriculum was developed for this reason.…”