Dr. Sheila Brown “Can You Be Educated from a Distance” An objective look into distance learning “Can You Be Educated from a Distance‚” an insightful essay by James Barszcz‚ brings to focus some of the benefits and disadvantages of Distance Learning education (DL). In it‚ Barszcz discusses the mechanics of DL courses available to students‚ the quality of education DL can offer‚ and some reasoning behind its rapidly growing popularity. “Can You Be Educated from a Distance” is an engaging article
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Kendale Dye WRT 101 Professor Centore 24 February 2014 “Can you be educated from a distance?” The Quality of education does not always depend on the professor who is teaching a course‚ but on the will that the student has to learn. For some students‚ an online course is just as effective and as challenging as any physical course that can be taken. Although this may be true‚ there are both advantages and disadvantages to taking online courses. An online course may be convenient to students who
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United States. Some high schools offer the opportunity to take online classes‚ but the majority of distance learning occurs in the college/university setting. As many people are aware of‚ college students come from a very wide background; old‚ young‚ mothers‚ fathers‚ young adults‚ etc. Some people who go to college come straight out of high school‚ while others may have taken a significant break from school. Since there is such a diverse culture in all colleges/universities‚ there needs to be many
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University Faisalabad Striving for Excellence tion 6th Posi in nking HEC Ra Distance Learning Education Admission Notice Programs Offered in Spring Semester 2013 B.Com (2 Years) Eligibility 1- Intermediate or equivalent with minimum 45% marks from any Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Punjab and Pakistan will be considered for admission. 2- In case of ‘A level’‚ the equivalence certificate from IBCC‚ Islamabad shall be required. M.Sc Economics (2 Years) M.Sc Mathematics
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alone‚ there was a 13% increase in registration for distance learning classes throughout the public university system. (Beverly Creamer‚ 2003) It is now possible for people to learn conveniently from home or office. People that want to go to school can do so now because scheduling and geographic location does not matter with online classes because the class course is brought to the student rather than the student to the course. Is distance learning as effective as classroom based courses? This study
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Explaining Distance Learning 3/9/2013 Imagine you are trying to explain distance learning to a friend. Write a response of 200-300 words to explain how courses work at Univ of Phoenix. Let me explain the benefits of going online for your classes. Distance learning will definitely stimulate your brain and there is nobody to distract you while you are trying to learn. I didn’t care for the classroom setting because it felt like I was in high school again; but the students got to talk more than
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Class: GEN1001/Lecture/27 Writing Essay 2 : Distance learning is becoming an increasingly common mode of study. In what ways do you think that distance learning is a beneficial mode of study over traditional face-to-face education? Nowadays‚ the development of technology is advancing by strides. Distance learning becomes a familiar vocabulary for the general public. Because of its advantages‚ more and more students prefer to learn by distance learning instead of traditional face-to-face education
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Distance learning Distance learning has been around for a long time in the form of correspondence‚ in which assignments were completed without supervision and submitted to an instructor via mail. Most courses were quite basic and did not allow for much‚ if any‚ teacher-student or student-teacher interaction. The introduction of the Internet‚ however‚ changed this model for delivering and submitting educational content. Computers allow more complicated information‚ more engaging instructional materials
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LITERACY ABSTRACT Open and Distance Learning is an alternative platform for people who want to pursue their tertiary education. This is especially true in the case of working professionals who wish to learn while on their job. However‚ it has always been a challenge to cope with learning verifying degrees of skills as they lack face to face interaction when compared to traditional learners. The main challenge of distance learning is that direct real-time feedback from the students or teachers
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and why people act in a certain way. If carried out effectively‚ research can be imperative as it brings about change in policy and practice Burns (1972). The two predominant methods of research are Quantitative and Qualitative research (Kumar‚2001). These methods differ primarily in their analytical objective‚ the type of questions they pose and the different methods of data collection. The following definition‚ taken from Aliaga and Gunderson (2000‚pg1)‚ describes what we mean by quantitative research
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