Study Skills for Distance Learning Theme A Activity 1 Personal SWOT Analysis Strengths | Weaknesses | EnthusiasticConfidentFocusedResourcefulFlexibilityResolute Knowledge gained during 27 years employment in a multi discipline engineering environment. | Motivation to study after full working day.Time management at home.Studying in Isolation. | Opportunities | Threats | Work a nine day forthright (week one five days‚ week two four days).Home from work at approximately 1715.Holiday periods
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Regarding to an article by Investopedia‚ the Power-Distance Index (PDI) is an index developed by Dutch sociologist Geert Hofstede that measures the distribution of power and wealth between people in a nation‚ business or culture. The power-distance index seeks to demonstrate the extent to which subordinates or ordinary citizens submit to authority. The power-distance index figure is lower in countries or organizations in which authority figures work closely with those not in authority‚ and is higher
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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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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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I think distance can effect relationships in several ways‚ depending on the situation‚ the kind of relationship‚ also how or if the relationship is maintained. Fortunently I haven’t had to part from close relationships often‚ but I can share two examples in which distance had an opposite effect. I grew up in a small town‚ there was only one school that went from kindergarten thru eighth-grade. So with the exception of the occational "new student" the people in my class had known me since I was
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words plus 10%) TASK 1 GOOD ICT SKILLS ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO THE FACILITATION OF A POSITIVE DISTANCE LEARNING EXPERIENCE. PRODUCE A REPORT WHERE YOU; 1. EVALUATE HOW YOU AS A STUDENT AND INDIVIDUAL CAN MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH YOUR TUTOR DURING YOUR STUDIES As a student I can maintain effective communication with my tutor by using my ICT skills which allow me to access online distance study. I can access the internet‚ log into the College ‘On Campus’ home page‚ navigate through
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accessible to everyone through taking courses online. Distance learning takes place when the teacher and student are separated from one another due to their physical location and technology is used to communicate instructions to the student and to communicate feedback to the instructor. The virtual classroom is one of the various forms of technology used as an alternative to the traditional classroom settings. Other tools used to educate from a distance include audio‚ video‚ data‚ and print. Accessibility
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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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traits? I think the modeling of an entire culture on just four traits can be misleading at times as certain cultural aspects may be missed in the grouping of individualist. Australia scored quiet low (36) on power distance because individuals in societies may not be equal. This expresses the attitude of the cultures towards these in equalities amongst all of us. Hofstede. G. (n.d) states that‚ “Power Distance is defined as the extent to which the less powerful members of institutions and organizations
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Beating our Junk Food Generation with Tips from a Local Expert An insight into how we can provide healthy food choices for our kids but while keeping it fun! By Claire Whittleston March 8‚ 2011 “I don’t want Brussels sprouts‚ Mommy! Can I have a cookie with ice cream on top?”Sound familiar? It’s frightful to say‚ but we are living in a junk food generation and many of our children don’t eat enough of their fruits and vegetables. Over the past three decades‚ childhood obesity rates in America
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