The Impact of Rich Media Presentations on a Distributed Learning Environment: Engagement and Satisfaction of Undergraduate Students (Report‪)‬

INTRODUCTION Distributed learning is a term used to describe the use of the emerging electronic learning environments to deliver synchronous and asynchronous instruction. Distributed learning environments integrate the interactive capabilities of networking, computing, and multimedia with learner-centered teaching approaches such as collaboration, discovery learning, and active learning (Oblinger, Barone, & Hawkins, 2001). These tools have primarily been used for the delivery of entire courses to remote learners (distance education), but they are being used increasingly as supplements to classroom-based education as well. These learning environments can include technologies, delivered in part through electronic media, such as videoconferencing, videotape, interactive television, electronic mail, and web-based instruction for the distant learner, the commuting learner, as well as the traditional on-campus learner (Havice & Havice, 2005).