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Richardson, John T. E. and Jelfs, Anne (2015). Access and attitudes to digital technologies across the adult lifespan: evidence from distance education. In: Rosen, Larry D.; Cheever, Nancy and Carrier, L. Mark eds. The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Psychology, Technology and Society. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 89–104.

Jelfs, Anne; McDonald, Janet; Price, Linda; Richardson, John T. E. and Cannell, Pete (2007). 'Am I still doing a good job?': Conceptions of tutoring in distance education. In: Rust, Chris ed. Improving Student Learning Through Teaching. Oxford, UK: Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development.

Jelfs, Anne; Harvey, Jen and Jones, Ann (2007). Online communities of practice as a possible model to support the development of a portal for science teachers. In: Lambropoulo, Niki and Zaphiris, Panayiotis eds. User-Centered Design of Online Learning Communities. Hershey PA: Information Science Publishing, pp. 141–160.

Colwell, Chetz; Di Paolo, Terry; Scanlon, Eileen; Cooper, Martyn; Uren, Victoria and Jelfs, Anne (2003). Redesigning practical work: web-based remote experimentation. In: Scanlon, Eileen and Holliman, Richard eds. Mediating science learning through information and communications technology. London: Routledge, pp. 169–187.

Jelfs, Anne and Colbourn, C. (2002). Constructing quality assurance for distance education: reflecting on what we have learned and the potential impact on access. In: Dikshit, H. P.; Garg, Suresh and Panda, Santosh eds. Access and equity: challenges for open and distance learning. Vijayshri, New Delhi, India: Kogan Page.

Law, Patrina and Jelfs, Anne (2016). Ten years of open practice: a reflection on the impact of OpenLearn. Open Praxis, 8(2) pp. 143–149.

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Jelfs, Anne and Richardson, John T. E. (2013). The use of digital technologies across the adult life span in distance education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 44(2) pp. 338–351.

Jelfs, Anne and Richardson, John T. E. (2010). Perceptions of academic quality and approaches to studying among disabled students and nondisabled students in distance education. Studies in Higher Education, 35(5) pp. 593–607.

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Jelfs, Anne; Richardson, John T. E. and Price, Linda (2009). Student and tutor perceptions of effective tutoring in distance education. Distance Education, 30(3) pp. 419–441.

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Jelfs, Anne and Kelly, Patrick (2007). Evaluating electronic resources: personal development planning resources at the Open University, a case study. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 32(5) pp. 515–526.

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Cooper, Martyn; Colwell, Chetz and Jelfs, Anne (2007). Embedding accessibility and usability: Considerations for e-learning research and development projects. ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 15(3) pp. 231–245.

Price, Linda; Richardson, John T. E. and Jelfs, Anne (2007). Face-to-face versus online tutoring support in distance education. Studies in Higher Education, 32(1) pp. 1–20.

Colwell, Chetz; Jelfs, Anne and Mallett, Elizabeth (2005). Initial requirements of deaf students for video: lessons learned from an evaluation of a digital video application. Learning, Media and Technology, 30(2) pp. 201–217.

Whitelock, Denise and Jelfs, Anne (2005). 'Would you rather collect data in the rain or attend a virtual field trip?': Findings from a series of virtual science field studies. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning, 15(1-2) pp. 121–131.

Jelfs, Anne; Nathan, Roberta and Barrett, Clive (2004). Scaffolding students: Suggestions on how to equip students with the necessary study skills for studying in a blended learning environment. Journal of Educational Media, 29(2) pp. 85–96.

Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Foster-Jones, Juanita; Jelfs, Anne; Mallett, Elizabeth and Holland, Dawn (2004). Investigating digital video applications in distance learning. Journal of Educational Media, 29(2) pp. 125–137.

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Jelfs, Anne and Colbourn, Chris (2002). Do Students Approaches to Learning affect their Perceptions of using computer and information technology? Journal of Educational Media, 27(1/2) pp. 41–54.

Jelfs, Anne and Colbourn, Chris (2001). Virtual Seminars and their impact on the role of the teaching staff. Computers and Education, 38(1-3) pp. 127–136.

Jelfs, Anne and Whitelock, Denise (2000). The notion of presence in virtual learning environments: what makes the environment "real". British Journal of Educational Technology, 31(2) pp. 145–152.

Whitelock, Denise; Romano, Daniela; Jelfs, Anne and Brna, Paul (2000). Perfect presence: what does this mean for the design of virtual learning environments? Education and Information Technologies, 5(4) pp. 277–289.

Kirkwood, Adrian; Jones, Ann and Jelfs, Anne (1996). Changing the role of tutors in distance education with information and communication technologies. ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology, 4(1) pp. 35–39.

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Coughlan, Tim; Rodriguez-Ascaso, Alejandro; Iniesto, Francisco and Jelfs, Anne (2016). OLA! A Scenario-Based Approach to Enhance Open Learning Through Accessibility. In: Computers Helping People with Special Needs: Proceedings of the 15th ICCHP conference, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, pp. 445–452.

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Mallett, Elizabeth; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes; Jelfs, Anne and Colwell, Chetz (2006). A DiVA for every audience: lessons learned from the evaluation of an online digital video library. In: Libraries Without Walls 6: Evaluating the distributed delivery of library services (Brophy, Peter; Craven, Jenny and Markland, Margaret eds.), Facet Publishing.

Jelfs, Anne (2004). Stakeholders' conceptions of quality in distance higher education. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis The Open University.

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Littlejohn, Allison; Papathoma, Tina; Smidt, Samantha; Jelfs, Anne; Bridgman, Sarah and Coe, Angela (2015). Driving Disruptive Innovation: Analysis of changes in Professional Practice through the production of an OU module (S309).

Sheehy, K.; Kukulska-Hulme, A.; Twining, P.; Evans, D.; Cook, D. and Jelfs, A. (2005). Tablet PCs in schools: A review of literature and selected projects.

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