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work_64ezq4e5rvcipmikiojfydqrsi	Justus J. RANDOLPH	What's the Difference, Still? A Follow up Methodological Review of the Distance Education Research	2007	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4265	386	54	of the distance learning literature entitled, What's the Difference?: A Review of Contemporary Research on the Effectiveness on Distance Learning in Higher Education [hereafter – What's the Difference] (Phipps and Merisotis). That presumption is investigated here by reviewing a small sample of the distance learning research where What's the Difference left off. current review examines the distribution, by type of study, of English language articles categorized by study type, and the experimental or quasi-experimental articles were critically analyzed in terms of the research methods used. Experimental articles investigated the effects of distance learning on For the quantitative experimental and quasi-experimental studies, the research design, experimental controls, selection, assignment, and reliability and validity of instruments are current review 9% of the articles were experimental studies, but in What's the Difference the sample of journal issues in the current review are representative of distance education research in general, but those particular issues had a higher proportion of qualitative	./cache/work_64ezq4e5rvcipmikiojfydqrsi.pdf	./txt/work_64ezq4e5rvcipmikiojfydqrsi.txt