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Blog Posting: The Next Generation of Distance Education
In comparing the reasons the authors believe there is a need to evolve distance education to the next generation.
Anderson states; “The current generation of online learners, at least, prefers to access their online resources in moderation. In keeping with principles of access that attempt to provide maximum opportunity to its clientele…provides both paperbased and online resources for potential applicants.”
I feel this is a valid point in Educators want to keep the playing fields “equal”. This is an important concept to focus on in the next generation of online education.
Simonson goes on to say; “But, it's pretty obvious it doesn't take a soothsayer to look into the future and say distance education is going to increase dramatically in the next few years, in the next few decades. And, how we adopt and adapt distance education in the future is going to be really interesting….At some point, the new idea, the innovation becomes so important and so widely accepted, it reaches that point of critical mass where it no longer needs to be promoted, it just needs to be nurtured, it needs to be supported, it needs to inculcated into what we do. Distance education is nearing that point today.”
I find this statement so true! It goes with the saying…it is not so much what you say…but how you say/do it! Distance education is no longer something that might happen…it is happening in large amounts on virtually every campus. It is the next generation…it is here! I feel as educators it should be our goal to nurture, support, and refine our lessons to match the caliber of F2F education…not just talk about what to do if online education comes to our campus…but do something to make online education first class!
Anderson, T. (Ed.) (2008). The theory and practice of online learning (2nd ed.). Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.
Simonson, M. “Principles of Distance Education Video: Distance Education: The Next Generation." Walden University. 2009. Laureate Education, Inc. Retrieved September 5, 2009
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Posted by cufys on 2009-10-01 20:50:58 | Rating: | Views: 85
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