“Talk about “Distance Teaching” in the UK: the way it works and the success the students achieve” In our days practically every person has a chance to get higher education. Even those people who can’t abandon their jobs or schedules in order to get to a university campus on a regular basis have such an opportunity as distant learning. They can become a student of one of such educational institutions as the Open University in the United Kingdom. The Open University is the only University in the
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DISTANCE EDUCATION: ALTERNATIVE LEARNING SYSTEM BEYOND BORDER History Distance education dates back to at least as early as 1728 when an advertisement in the Boston Gazette promoted "Caleb Phillips‚ Teacher of the new method of Short Hand‚" who sought students who wanted to learn through weekly mailed lessons. Similarly‚ Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s. Distance education has a long history‚ but its popularity and use has grown exponentially as
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Online Learning: A Student Perspective Abstract The background of students in higher education is changing from the traditional middle class school-leaver to a complex mix of age‚ race‚ gender‚ ethnicity‚ socio-economics‚ and experience. With this complexity of student needs‚ abilities‚ experience and expectations comes challenges for academic staff and administration as well as for students which already had great impacts on student performance. Negotiating the steep learning curve for those
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INTRODUCTION This chapter focuses on Problem-based Learning (PBL). Enquiry-based Learning is defined in the first chapter as “a broad umbrella term used to describe approaches to learning that are driven by a process of enquiry‚” O’Rourke and Kahn (2005:1). Within this context Problembased Learning is seen as a set of approaches under the broader category of Enquiry-based Learning. One of the main defining characteristics of Problem-based Learning‚ which distinguishes it from some other
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Acknowledgements First of all‚ we would like to say thanks for the God‚ for giving us the strength and health to do this assignment until it done. This assignment we already used 5 weeks to complete it without any problem. We need to do a lot of work to finished this assignment. However‚ in this long time of finished this assignment‚ we have learn about the cooperative between each other‚ gains experience‚ and so on. Not forgotten to thank to our lecturer‚ Mr. for providing us an information and
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Distance Education We normally take our studies in a structured establishment called classroom located a place called school. Every day‚ we wake up early‚ leave our homes‚ pay for transportation fees and finally reach to our second home‚ the classroom. As we welcome ourselves in Mindanao State University‚ we are lucky to meet different kinds of people from different kinds of places. People from Glan‚ Tacurong‚ Marbel and all over Mindanao are your schoolmates and classmates. You share experiences
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Ethical and Legal Problems Faced by Nurse Practitioners HCA322: Health Care Ethics & Medical Law (BGE1226A) Instructor: Eugene Elliott Cara Gerlach 7/23/12 Ethical and Legal Problems Faced by Nurse Practitioners Every medical professional has or will face some ethical and legal issues in the Medical Field‚ the Nurse Practitioners (NP) are no different. Fant stated that in an ethical dilemma there are no right answers or solutions; however‚ in these dilemmas there are no wrong answers either
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What Is The Biggest Problem Facing Our Educational System Today? Education is a vast and broad subject‚ and has been a topic open to discussion for many centuries. In the broadest sense of the term‚ education is any experience or exposure to an act that will have a formative and learned effect on a person’s character and mind. Modern education tends to mean the process by which a society will teach and pass on its broad knowledge‚ skill and values‚ from one generation to another. Education itself
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How serious were the problems facing the Tsar‚ Nicholas II from 1894-1905? Alongside the other serious problems the Tsar encountered‚ one main concerning battle was with himself‚ which many concurred with by the end of 1905. Nicholas II fell into the notion that the throne was reserved for him by the will of god‚ thus thought he didn’t have to take measures to politically modernise‚ and establish Russia in general. This deluded perception brought about many serious problems itself. Nicholas II‚
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Learning Problems Over the decades education has gone through a vast experimentation on various theories and teaching method to find the perfect education system. In the United States of America‚ ‘The no child left behind’ policy and the ‘Common core’ are all going through varies debates to see the best fit education system. As I am currently teaching in Cooperative School in Majuro‚ using the United States curriculum‚ I have witnessed that there is always room for new educational interventions
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