"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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Attachment theory describes the dynamics of long-term relationships between humans. Its most important tenet is that an infant needs to develop a relationship with at least one primary caregiver for social and emotional development to occur normally. Attachment theory explains how much the parents’ relationship with the child influences development. Attachment theory is an interdisciplinary study encompassing the fields of psychological‚ evolutionary‚ and ethological theory. Immediately after World
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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 Audience and Uncomfortable Distance What can be problematic about this collective knowledge that the narrator and audience share is that when the distance between narrator and narratee is so collapsed—and the vein of collective knowledge laid bare—some readers (and scholars) grow uncomfortable with the narrator and‚ as a result‚ Stowe’s text. For Thomas P. Joswick‚ this feeling originates from a collective negative experience‚ rather than the positive experience of identification that the narrator
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Muhammad Bilal Pooya Moazzeni Bikani Human Detection and Distance Measurement Introduction: Detecting human from his movements and measuring the distance was done in this project. Kinect Xbox360 was used as the sensor to detect the human. Kinect provides the point cloud of the object in front of it. C++ OpenCV library was used to program the kinect‚ import the data‚ doing the calculations and showing the final result which is the distance from the device. Linux is the operating system in use to
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When it comes to distance education in middle school‚ some may think that it is irrelevant for children to learn outside of the classroom. Personally‚ I believe that distance education is important at every level of school. In middle school‚ it would be appropriate for students to experience distance education‚ by requiring your class to log into a class chat room on the weekend‚ or at a particular time after the normal class hours and discussing the lesson for the day or the week. Also‚ as the instructor
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1 INTRODUCTION Background This report was created to present the findings of a study aimed to curve the impact of the large number of workers we employ on local traffic. Many city and county transportation officials are interested in exploring ways to solve the traffic issues. The research in this report analyzes the commuting patterns of our 43‚500 employees. Traffic is a daily battle for many commuters and has become a problem in our area. Problem For many people‚ the commute to
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Culture - Power Distance This is a determinant basic to all societies that Hofstede has named. It is describing the distribution of "power" among individuals and groups in the society‚ and how inequalities in power are dealt with in these societies. Inequality of power is a basic fact of life. It cannot be 100% eliminated. Iit is impossible to have _no_ power distance‚ because this means everyone is exactly equal (skills‚ actions‚ genetics‚ etc) unless of course you are on about a bunch of identical
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Power distance and Hofstede’s dimensions Introduction This paper will be about the relation between the cultural dimension ‘power distance’ and three management principles we chose and will also be about the applicability of these management principles. This is quite interesting because even though we know that the cultural dimensions‚ by Geert Hofstede‚ and the management principles‚ by Fayol‚ have something to do with each other‚ the more the cultural dimensions differ‚ the more the ranking
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ULTRA-SONIC DISTANCE METER. Introduction to Ultrasonic Distance Meter The project Ultrasonic Distance Meter is a very interesting and useful project for many industrial applications. In this project we have used the ultrasonic waves to measure the distance in between two points. The basic principal is based on the speed of ultrasonic waves in open air. We have used a microcontroller AT89S51 to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves through 40 KHz ultrasonic receiver and transmitters. By measuring
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