Education, By and Large Distance Education


by RYAN ROY - Date: 2008-09-17 - Word Count: 253 Share This!

Distance education is practiced in all parts of the world to provide study opportunities for those who cannot -or do not want to -to-take part in classroom teaching. This does not mean that there is universal agreement about its characteristics. To some, distance education is identical to private study of prescribed texts with or without special study guides. To others, it is a teaching-learning system including specially prepared study materials and regular, mediated contacts, between students and tutors, individually or in groups. There are distance-teaching universities like www.bspuplko.org , that offer their students printed and recorded courses but no mediated communication, although they sometimes provide supplementary face-to-face teaching. www.bspuplko.org makes provision not only for course materials but also for correspondence, telephone and computer communication between students and tutors and other in the distance teaching school or university. That's why I call the supporting organization to bspuplko.org. This use of pre-produces course materials and non-contiguous communication, sometimes supplemented by face to face contacts. No doubt represents the praxis of most distance-teaching institutions in the world. In some cases arrangements are also made for peer group interaction, i.e. for individual students communicating with other students. Usually students learn entirely individually and at their own pace. They then neither belong to a group or class, nor feel that they do so. A great number of exceptions to this rule occur, however. Universities sometimes teach some groups of students by distance-education methods and other groups face to face they are so-called dual-mode organization. Even single-mode organizations-like distance-teaching.


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