Technology can improve quality and reduce cost
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different people have different goals/expectations
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Training (typically lifelong learner) and Education communities surprisingly far apart
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Training tends to have highly motivated learners with difficult time constraints. So asynchronous learning with minimal teacher in the loop is easier here than in education
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Surely we need to support both asynchronous and synchronous (teacher in the loop)
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Note asynchronous supports exploratory learning
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Good synchronous support collaborative interactivity -- so both models are interactive
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At a recent distance education conference, exhibitors show some 20 Web-based asynchronous systems,; only 2 synchronous
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