Learning Skills for Distance Learners: Providing 21st Century Learning Support Sara Al-Oraini Dep. Curricula & Teaching Methods College of Education‚ King Saud University Abstract One of the main goals of open and distance education (ODE) programmes is to ensure that knowledge and skills gained positively affect performance or behavior. Apart from that‚ ODE programmes should also ensure learners extend their existing learning skills into new directions. However‚ it has always been a
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A Theoretical Framework for Distance Education-Desmond Keegan Keegan suggested that electronically linking students and instructor at various locations creates a virtual classroom. Keegan suggested three questions had to be answered before one could develop a theory. Those three questions are 1.) Is distance education an educational activity? 2.) Is distance education a form of conventional education? 3.) Is distance education possible‚ or is it a contradiction in terms? These 3 questions lend
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DISTANCE LEARNING: DEMOCRATIZATION OF EDUCATION Distance education or distance learning is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching‚ often on an individual basis‚ to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom. It has been described as "a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance‚ or both.
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Disadvantages of Distance Learning A few years ago‚ distance learning was seen as an inferior way but nowadays even famous and established traditional colleges and universities are providing distance learning courses and it is generally considered a way to improve one’s life. However‚ people still argue whether distance learning give more advantage or disadvantage. Some of them who see the benefit of distance learning will say that distance learning
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Study Skills for Distance Learning Theme A BSc.(Hons) Engineering Management Degree Subject: Study Skills A report on the existing study skills of the author and areas where he can improve and develop his long distance work based learning techniques to successfully complete the Engineering Management BSc. (Hons.) Degree. Contents Page Title Page Content Page 1 Introduction 2 Learning Outcomes for Study Skills Module One Figure 1 3 Activity One Developing learning independence
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“Online Distance Mode of Learning” Edited / Authored By: Dr. K. RAVICHANDRAN1M.B.A.‚Ph.D. Professor & HEAD Department of Entrepreneurship Studies Madurai Kamaraj University MADURAI – 625 021 Mobile:+ 91 – 93 60 50 54 43 Email:ravimba_mku@yahoo.co.in (or) ravimba.mku@gmail.com Co-Authored By: VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM C.V.M.B.A.‚ M.Phil.‚ (Ph.D.) Research Scholar Department of Entrepreneurship Studies Madurai Kamaraj University MADURAI – 625 021 Mobile: + 91 – 96 553 – 83 745 Email:
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"What Every Student Should Know About Online Learning." Illinois Online Network. Web. 02 Apr. 2010. The author--John E. Reid‚ Jr.--clearly writes in favor of Distance Education‚ or as he calls it‚ Computer Mediated Distance Education. He argues that for adult learners‚ the conveniency of being able to take classes‚ and then work the material‚ watch lectures‚ at their own preferable time. Reid claims that the traditional system of education is well on the verge of being swept away by online learning
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No.1‚ 2012 www.iiste.org Effectiveness of Open and Distance Education and the Relevance of ICT: A North-East Indian Perspective Prasenjit Das‚ Ritimoni Bordoloi* Department of English‚ Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University‚ Guwahati 781006‚ Assam‚ India * E-mail of the corresponding author: ritimonibordoloi@gmail.com Abstract In today’sKnowledge Society‚ it is almost accepted by common agreement that open and distance learning (ODL) has enabled people to develop different levels
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The internal migration policy of the European Union Table of Contents 1 Statement of independent work 2 2 Preface‚ Introduction 3 3 History‚ Development and Policies 5 4 Recent results 5 4.1 Meeting in Tampere 6 4.2 Schäuble-Sarkozy paper 6 5 Living Europe Safely – Work program for the German EU Presidency (1.1.07–30.6.07) 8 5.1 Fighting illegal migration; preventing visa fraud 8 5.2 Improving returns 8 5.3 Protecting refugees – expanding cooperation 8 5.4 Managing legal immigration
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St. Louis‚ Missouri is one of the up and coming cities in the United States at the beginning of the 1900s. The city has experienced incredible growth following the end of the Civil War‚ people from all over the United States‚ and the world in general‚ have flocked to this new industrial superpower. St. Louis donned the honor of being the fourth largest city in the United States in 1900 with a population of 575‚238. Having a population of that size brought a large amount of diversity into the city
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