Faculty Philosophical Position Towards Distance Education: Competency, Value, and Educational Technology Support. Authors used survey to assess faculty "philosophical position" towards DL (i.e. supportive or opposed) and their perception of value of DL. Not surprisingly, there's a correlation between those philosophically supportive of DL and those who see value in DL. A snippet: ... The majority of educators are not philosophically opposed to distance education. ... The faculty who had higher distance education value scores had low philosophical opposition scores. This leads to the belief that the increasing value of distance education must be communicated more effectively in order to impact the philosophical positioning of those opposed to distance education. ...
