Below is an excerpt of some ideas which I wrote to a few Faculty members at Fielding:

I just wanted to add that I am also working on the differentiation and the development of the context of the Educational Theory and the Scientific Theory. I have worked on the basis of the Scientific Theoretical approach and the elucidation of "what is" or "why is." In Education, though...we are interested in the "how is" and "how can we" facilitate as educators the development of our students in the areas of Learning Theory and the Subject Area presentation in the written _expression in much of a way of Semiotic meaning and the "expressed word" in that the meaning conveys much more than the language; it expressed a sense of motivation to be presented to the student in the Distance Learning arena in that the written language is the mode of contact and interaction with the Instructor/Facilitator.

In the classroom (Onground) the Instructor is able to facilitate the motivations and the progression in the student as an arena of the "whole." With all of the parts that are available to the "actor of knowledge." In the Distance Learning venue, the facilitator is only able to present the material within the context of the "actor of language and knowledge." Ergo the study which I am embarking on..Discourse Analysis and Contexual Theory, which approaches the field of Distance Education in the way of looking at the construction of the Learning Theories within the context of the written and spoken language with all of the color that the student has at his or her disposal which is directly the result of the imagination of the context of the subject matter and the mind of the Instructor (Online).

Margith A. Strand

Margith A. Strand's Dissertation at Fielding Graduate University: Discourse Analysis and Contexual Theory in Distance Education

I am listing the course of my Dissertation track of thought processes:

The title of the Dissertation is proposed to be as: Discourse Analysis and Contexual Theory in Distance Education.

Discourse Analysis has the following components which will be used to investigate the area of empirical and experential applications in Distance Learning.

Intertexuality, Register Theory, Text Semantics, Discursive Formation, Cohesion Analysis, Narrative Analysis and Theme-Rheme Analysis.

I propose to use the Atlas.ti software method to analyze data as given in the discussion thread sections of Science and General Education courses as collected during a period of 4 years from a proprietary Higher Education college of Distance Learning.