Some of you have found the post already, but for those who’ve missed it, it’s time to reveal my own perspective on the phrase “Distance Education”
The phrase “distance education” is redundant. All education is done at a distance. The problem is that we’re so close to the issue — and so fluent in certain technologies — that we fail to recognize one existential truth. Education involves two people — the teacher and the learner. As soon as you’re dealing with more than one mind, you have a distance that needs to be bridged and the only bridge we have — barring the psychics among you — is technology. The distance is almost always due to physical displacement, but may also involve temporal shifts.
Go check out the whole post. Tell me what you think of it.
September 11th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Now who’s getting philosophical. You got me for going all Social Studies on Tappedin, but your statement is not simple in the slightest. Distantance Learning is meant to represent to simple fact that the learner and the teacher are not in the same room physically. But, your definition sure does sound good. It’s what I like to call Mayo.