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As geographers, we have a particular professional interest in the spatial separation of teaching nodes and learning locations. Clearly, the ever increasing need to hold jobs while attending school makes the synchronized and face-to-face convergence of teachers and students expensive and restrictive. We need to experiment with new ways of permitting students to organize their employment and academic lives more efficiently. The asynchronous nature of E-mail and Web page communication is well known. We need to combine these temporal conveniences with "flexible education spaces" (or partially remote learning environments) into more adaptable educational time-space continua. With increased availability of electronic access at home or public places (libraries, internet cafes etc.) in the outer fringes of (or beyond) traditional hinterlands of existing universities, a reduction of commuting needs or residential relocations of students coming from greater distances and/or subject to tighter work/study schedules should go a long way towards improving learning environments for those students who do not wish to embrace the extreme forms of distance education void of any face-to-face interaction.
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The California Virtual University will instead focus
on promoting the development and distribution of courses and programs
offered by all 301 accredited California colleges and universities.
Students will not earn certificates or degrees from
the California Virtual University, but from the campuses in which
they are enrolled.
There are significant economies of scale to be
achieved through the
development and marketing of an online catalog, and
the Design Team is currently developing an interactive catalog
for launch later
this year."
The International Community
College is creating a seamless and transparent way to combine
student credits. The Articulation Club will allow curricula
agreements to be reached between member
colleges; provide a basis for combining credits; and furnish a system
for directing tuition to providing
institutions.
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Distance Education & Distributed Learning:
will enable users at
geographically distributed sites to collaborate in
real time in a shared, simulated
environment as if they were in the same physical room.
This new paradigm for
human-computer interaction is the ultimate synthesis
of networking and media technologies
and, as such, it is the greatest technical challenge
for Internet2.
...are people networks for anytime - anywhere learning . ALN
combines self-study with substantial, rapid, asynchronous
interactivity with others. In ALN learners use
computer and communications technologies to work with remote learning
resources, including coaches
and other learners, but without the requirement to be online at the
same time. The most common ALN
communication tool is the World Wide Web.
Der 1. Dezember 1974 gilt als Gr×ndungsdatum der FernUniversitt-
Gesamthochschule in Hagen. Damals trat das vom Landtag in
Nordrhein-Westfalen beschlossene Gesetz in Kraft. Der Studienbetrieb
begann im Wintersemester 1975/76 mit 1.300 Studenten.
"We do offer an Intro to Physical Geography (GEO 200) and Intro to
Cultural Geography (GEO 210)"
Seattle Central Community College's ambitious
plans to offer classes through the Internet have floundered for the
second time in three years.
The college had expected to offer online classes
last fall, as part of the International Community College (ICC), a
consortium of community colleges from the Midwest and West and Jones
Education, which was supposed to market the classes and provide the
infrastructure to deliver them.
Here are some sites where you can get
started in searching for online learning
opportunities.
GIGAPOP, according to many computer scientists
and educators, is a faster and more
efficient Internet system that educators hope
will transform distance learning into an alternative
teaching method on par with classroom teaching.
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