Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i31GAKm23759; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:10:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:10:30 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <BAY17-F33gCx91QZHD90002c0c1@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marie Cora" <mariecora@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1304] RE: : participating online or at a distance X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2154 Lines: 46 Hi everyone, Actually, I have to agree with Janet that if at all possible, it might be good for there to be at least one opportunity for participants to get together - and I fully acknowledge that this is not always possible - and it might not even be the point of that interaction (i.e.: developing a distance course exactly BECAUSE folks cannot be face to face. But my father-in-law, a long-time University Prof in sociology, is now doing a couple types of distance learning - one form in which the participants come together 3 times in 3 different locations of the country - and he does say that this type of DL has been the most successful. What also jumps to mind for me with the course above is that, as David noted in his reply, this course is tuition-based, credit bearing, etc. But all that said, not all courses can be this way, not all people could participate in this way - so what might be the fate of courses that don't have these 'support structures'? marie cora >From: Janet Isserlis <Janet_Isserlis@Brown.edu> >Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:1272] : participating online or at a distance >Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:23:03 -0500 (EST) > >One thing I wonder about, too, is face to face interaction. I was >peripherally part of a distance course last spring out of Lancaster, UK, >and believe that participants (all within the UK) had an opportunity to >meet together at the beginning and end of the course. (If anyone from that >course is online, please jump in and correct anything I've mis-understood). > >Obviously, face to face meetings aren't possible in many instances, but >when we're talking about regional learning, it seems to make sense to bring >people together to start building the connections they'll need and want to >maintain electronically. > >other thoughts? > >Janet Isserlis _________________________________________________________________ Free up your inbox with MSN Hotmail Extra Storage. Multiple plans available. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-us&page=hotmail/es2&ST=1/go/onm00200362ave/direct/01/
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