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Foil 5 Recent Approaches to Distance Learning

From Remarks on Distance Learning NCSA Visit and SU teaching Tools -- Sept 25 and Nov 6 97. by Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey C. Fox)
1 Web-based asynchronous training
  • Shares many drawbacks of CD-ROM - based learning due to non-interactive nature
  • Adds performance problems (downloading time)
  • Advantage: courseware easier to update and develop
  • Very popular approach at many universities in USA as stationary class enhancement
    • This is probably the right model
  • The trend to call every class syllabus published to the Web "distance learning" is somewhat dangerous
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