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Andrews (1991) discussed how technology impacted on educational offerings along with the
various results. In the 1990s, the introduction of the Internet brought a shift in distance education
(Eaton 2002; Shale 2002; Web-Based Education Commission 2000). Online education is a mix
of human–computer interaction, cognitive science, and instructional technologies (Distance
Learning Task Force 1999; Hrastinski 2008; Parsad, Lewis and Tice 2008). For this discussion,
the definition of online education provided by Parsad et al. (2008) is used:
“formal education process in which the student and instructor are not in the same pl