Three possible elements of distance education- a. global diversity, b. communication, and c. collaborative interaction, that are creating more effective learning experiences and giving distance education an identity of its own. Agree or Disagree?
Distance Education has evolved over the years. It has come from being something that was complicated and not accessible to something that is available and flexible for people to integrate in their daily schedule. According to Siemens, society's acceptance of distance education has grown. More and more people are comfortable with using the technology and enjoying the communication with different people. Global diversity, communication, and collaborative interaction are elements that helped distance education to be flexible, comfortable, and accessible.
The element of communication helps distance education to expand globally. People are able to have conversations with others that they never thought they would. People are allowed to voice their opinion in conversation communities that they may not have face to face. The communication in distance education can be done between people in the next room to across the ocean in another country. People can communicate with people from their bedroom, from their living room, and/or from their kitchen table. In distance education, people are allowed to use the different types of communication tools to communicate with people that are in their classes. People are using skype, blogs, wikispace, facebook, chat rooms, and class discussion room. Communication will help distance education to evolve because people build relationships from course to course. Communication keeps distance education expanding because of the diversity and global effect it has on people who wants to continue their education.
For Module 2, I commented to http://incitefultechnology.blogspot.com/ and http://middletonprinciplesdistanceeducation.blogspot.com/.
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