3.1134 distance education defined and explained (114)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Mon, 5 Mar 90 20:55:18 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1134. Monday, 5 Mar 1990.
(1) Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 18:27:29 EST (32 lines)
From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash)
Subject: 3.1109 distance education
(2) Date: Sun, 4 Mar 90 16:31:55 EST (22 lines)
From: elliot@library.uucp (Elliot Kanter)
Subject: Re: 3.1125 a fascination of queries (152)
(3) Date: Sun, 04 Mar 90 23:56:18 EST (11 lines)
From: LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH
Subject: Distance education
(4) Date: Mon, 05 Mar 90 09:09:50 EST (17 lines)
From: "Diane P. Balestri" <BALESTRI@PUCC>
Subject: Distance Learning
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 90 18:27:29 EST
From: munnari!csc2.anu.OZ.AU!dgn612@uunet.UU.NET (David Nash)
Subject: 3.1109 distance education
Since you ask,
Roland Hutchinson <R.RDH@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>,
David Gillison <DAGLC@CUNYVM>,
I presume that the document on the LISTERV (which I haven't
received yet) uses the term "distance education" in the same sense
that it has here in Australia, where it has been widely used in the
last few years for what other jargon might call "remote educational
service delivery". Correspondence courses, stuff like that. Outback
Australia has had School of the Air networks for some time (listen for
the lessons and the teacher-pupil conversations in the HF band around
4 to 6 MHz).
Recently I heard of some pilot scheme where Commodores or Apple IIs or
suchlike were provided to some school kids on cattle stations and
other places where there are only a few pupils (not enough to get
justify a regular class), and these are linked (packet radio, or
Aussat?) to a teacher. That's distance ed. Another project I heard
of recently is increasing the range of electives at rural high schools
by linking smallish schools by interactive video to e.g. a Latin or
geology teacher at a regional larger school for a few hours a week.
David Nash
Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) | Dept Linguistics
GPO Box 553 Fax: (062)497310 | ANU
Canberra ACT 2601 Telegraphic: ABINST | GPO Box 4
Phone: (062)461166, 461111(PABX) | Canberra ACT 2601
AARNet: dgn612@csc2.anu.oz.au
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 90 16:31:55 EST
From: elliot@library.uucp (Elliot Kanter)
Subject: Re: 3.1125 a fascination of queries (152)
SUBJECT: "What is distance education?"
In general it refers to education made possible or augmented by remote
computer and network links. For example, an isolated rural community
where the school can conect with electronic correspondence courses; or
networked science classes around the country (or world) working together
on joint projects.
I came across the concept last Summer with the announcement of an online
Journal of Distance Education (subscription to a Bitnet fileserver at no
charge). Colntact Jason Ohler, at the University of Alaska Southeast,
JFJBO@ALASKA. The print journal Electronic Learning also gets into the
subject.
Elliot Kanter
University of Calif., San Diego
Research Services Dept/Central University Library
ekanter@ucsd
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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 90 23:56:18 EST
From: LNGDANAP@UOGUELPH
Subject: Distance education
In case no one has already answered this query, Distance Education is
a situation in which the teacher and the student are not in each
other's physical presence. The means of course delivery vary from
correspondence (old term for same phenomenon) to phone contact, to
interactive computer conferencing, not to mention audio tapes, slides
and a host of other ingenious means of overcoming distance in the
name of the learning process.
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 90 09:09:50 EST
From: "Diane P. Balestri" <BALESTRI@PUCC>
Subject: Distance Learning
"Distance learning" is a rather unlovely title to give a large and
increasingly important aspect of higher education: the education of
students who for a wide variety of reasons can't come to a campus
regularly, if at all, to learn. In the past, correspondence courses via
the mail, audio cassettes, and occasionall y television were the media
for this kind of learning. Some institutions, such as the British Open
University or NY's Empire State, have been pioneers in seeking
nontraditional learners and providing them with courses and teachers.
Today, a very wide range of technologies can be combined to provide
learners with even better access to learning materials, to teachers,
and to fellow student s, even though they may not be able to study at
conventional times and/or in co nventional places. A number of states
in the US, I believe, are also committing resources to extending their
systems of higher education to distant learners. The Annenberg/CPB
project is also devoted to funding projects in this area.