Walker, S. L. (2005). Development of the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) for higher education The Texas Journal of Distance Learning [Online serial], 2(1), 1-16. Available: http://www.txjdl.org/articles/v2i1/deles/
Development of the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey (DELES) for Higher Education
This research involves designing, developing and validating the Distance Education Learning Environments Survey for students in distance education-delivered subjects in higher education. This study is unique in that only one other similar instrument, the Distance and Open Learning Environment Scale, which focuses on science education, currently exists. Globally governments and institutions are calling for meaningful research on distance education. This research has yielded a widely-applicable learning environment survey suitable for use in higher education in research applications and in practitioners' attempts to improve their classrooms.