The Benefits of Distance Learning I. Easy access for both students and teachers II. Knowledge of instructors and classmates A. Posting of bibliographies III. One-on-one contact between instructor and student A. Phone contact B. Web-site email C. Chat areas IV. Students learn just as easily as in the classroom V. Access to other students through online communication A. Personal emails B. Classroom and group discussion boards C. Online course chat rooms
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Distance Education is defined as an educational process in which for the majority of the time‚ the learning occurs when the teacher and learners are receiving and giving instructions at the same remote side from each other. Open University refer to ‘an organizational activity based on the use of teaching materials‚ in which the constraints on study are minimized either in terms of access‚ or of time and place‚ pace‚ methods of study or any combination of these’ (Periaton 2000 :13) One
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The Evolution of Education in America Introduction Throughout the United States‚ students are enrolling in colleges and universities at records numbers. This trend is occurring in spite of the hard to swallow increases in tuition and fees by institutions of higher learning. For example‚ attending a two-year college in 1980 would cost a low-income family 6% of their income; in 2000‚ the number was 12%. Those attending four-year schools in the same period spent 13% in 1980 and 25% in 2000 (Higher
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Ayush Agrawal Prof. William MacPherson As the term suggests “online education”‚ the education that one gets through the usage of internet. Online learning is essentially the computer and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge‚ hence it is also referred as E-learning. This system of education applications and processes include Web-based learning‚ computer-based learning‚ virtual classroom opportunities and digital collaboration. About a decade ago‚ in the late 90’s who would have
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No.1‚ 2012 www.iiste.org Effectiveness of Open and Distance Education and the Relevance of ICT: A North-East Indian Perspective Prasenjit Das‚ Ritimoni Bordoloi* Department of English‚ Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University‚ Guwahati 781006‚ Assam‚ India * E-mail of the corresponding author: ritimonibordoloi@gmail.com Abstract In today’sKnowledge Society‚ it is almost accepted by common agreement that open and distance learning (ODL) has enabled people to develop different levels
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Education is an essential element in societies throughout the world. For many years education has been provided in classrooms on campuses worldwide‚ but there has been a change made to the conventional method of classroom learning. With the advancements in technology‚ education has been restructured so that it may be accessible to everyone through taking courses online. Distance learning takes place when the teacher and student are separated from one another due to their physical location and
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ENROLLED IN DISTANCE EDUCATION Table of Contents Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION 3 Relevant Background Information 3 Statement of the problem 6 Purpose of the Study 7 Research Questions 7 Theoretical Framework 8 Chapter 2 – LITERATURE REVIEW 12 Distance Learning 12 Conceptual models: Adult-learning models 15 Adult Learning Styles 17 Barriers to Learning in distance education 19 Faculty Barriers in Distance Learning 20 Adult Learners and Motivation in distance education 20
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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. At present‚ there
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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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“Talk about “Distance Teaching” in the UK: the way it works and the success the students achieve” In our days practically every person has a chance to get higher education. Even those people who can’t abandon their jobs or schedules in order to get to a university campus on a regular basis have such an opportunity as distant learning. They can become a student of one of such educational institutions as the Open University in the United Kingdom. The Open University is the only University in the
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