Evaluating distance education
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educational studies
presentation
published 09/09/2008
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Online Distance Learning (ODL), also called distributed education (DE) has yet to revolutionize education. While the potential of the Internet a multi-media medium of information that can combine synchronous and asynchronous communications, video, audio, text, and graphics for learning is profound, but has not been tapped. Like many previous technological advances (microcomputers, television, etc.) the Internet been adapted to play relatively marginal roles within traditional paradigms of the educational process - putting old wine into new bottles. Traditional educational paradigms are under challenge, but no potential replacements have been widely accepted
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Constructivism.
- Constructivism critiqued.
- Direct Instruction.
- Assessment as autopsy.
- Conclusion.
