Online

• John Barnard's annotated bibliography on transactional distance

Books and Journals

• Anderson, T.D. & Garrison, D.R. (1995). Transactional issues in distance education: The impact of design in audio teleconferencing. The American Journal of Distance Education, 9 (2), 27-45.
• Bischoff, W. R., Bisconer, S.W., Kooker, B. M., and Woods, L.C. (1996). Transactional distance and interactive television in the distance education of health professionals. The American Journal of Distance Education (10)3, 4-19.
• Kirby, D. and Boak, C. (1989). Investigating instructional approaches in audio-teleconferencing classes. The Journal of Distance Education, Vol.4 No.1, pp5-19.
• Moore, M. (1991). Editorial: Distance Education Theory. The American Journal of Distance Education (5)3, 1-6.
• Saba, F. (1988). Integrated communications systems and instructional transaction. The American Journal of Distance Education, 2 (3): 17-24.
• Saba, F. (1990). Integrated telecommunications systems and instructional transaction. In M.G. Moore, P. Cookson, J. Donaldson, B. A. Quigley (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in American Distance Education (pp. 344-352). Oxford: Pergamon Press.
• Saba, F. and Shearer, R.L. (1994).  Verifying key theoretical concepts in a dynamic model of distance education. The American Journal of Distance Education (8)1, 36-57.

On Line Research

• Berge, Z. (1996) Where interaction intersects time. MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. Vol. 4 No.1, pp 69-83. Available Online: http://mirrored.ukoln.ac.uk/lis-journals/mcjrnl/mcjrnl/v4n1/berge.html.
• Berge, Z. (1996) Transactional Distance. Listserve commentary. Available Online: http://www.umbc.edu/lists/educ643/1996-2/0068.html
• Bunker, E., Gayol, Y., Nti, N., Reidell, P. (1996) A study of transactional distance in an international audioconferencing course. Diversity and International Section, SITE Conference proceedings. Available online: http://www.coe.uh.edu/insite/elec_pub/html1996/01divers.htm#bunker
• Curtis, P. (1992). Mudding: Social phenomena in text-based virtual realities. [Online]. http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/computer-science/virtual-reality/papers/DIAC92.txt
• Mueller, C. (1997). Transactional distance. Cyberslang: the ultimate instant online encyclopedia. Available: http://tecfa.unige.ch/staf/staf9698/mullerc/3/transact.html [18 February 1998].
• Murphy, K. and Collins, M. (1997) Development of communication conventions in instructional electronic chats. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illionis, March 24 - 28, 1997. Available online: http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue2_11/murphy/
  note: This paper contains numerous online academic article references.
• Reid, E. M. (1994). Cultural formations in text-based virtual realities. MA Thesis, University of Melbourne. [Online].http://people.we.mediaone.net/elizrs/work.html

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