CIDER's research is based upon identifiable needs, emerging from the community of distance educators, that create an opportunity to utilize, assess, and develop knowledge and theory in practice.
Members of the CIDER community seek to understand and improve distance education systems. The agenda broadly focuses on investigations of interrelationships among component parts of distance education systems. This agenda includes the direct study of teaching and learning at a distance as well as the effect of related components such as administrative, technical, learner and teacher support systems that define modern distance education. CIDER Fellows and staff conduct original research, undertake evaluation and training consultancies, publish reviews and summaries, and undertake professional development activities for researchers, educators, trainers and administrators.
Together, we use a variety of tools, methodological approaches, and cultures to study what is a very encultured domain - that of mediated learning that takes place at a distance.
Session and general inquiries: dwilton@athabascau.ca
CIDER includes 27 fellows from 10 countries.
