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Distance Learning
Distance learning has been both a goldmine and a major difficulty for both students and educational institutions. For students, there is now an opportunity to receive academic credit and degrees while still working. Even if a degree is not a goal, the ability to learn a wide variety of job skills or just satisfy curiosity can be accomplished as simply as logging on to the internet. This does not come without a price, however. Degree programs online are generally priced at a premium, even though the educational institution does not have to pay for the conventional brick and mortar of a traditional campus. In addition, finding quality programs that are responsive to student needs may not always be easy.
For institutions, the issues may even be more complex. How do you create a program and effectively and efficiently meets the needs of the distance learner? What is a distance learner? What special skills does the instructor need? They need more than the ability to log on to a chat room.
Issues around distance learning are complex and still in an early infancy stage. Many well-established colleges and universities are now making some form of distance learning available to students. CedarCreek VRC works with colleges and universities to better understand student values and needs, while providing faculty and administration the technical skills necessary to manage a distance learning site.
To read a summary article on distance learning (including bibliography), click here.
