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What is Distance-Learning

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A type of education, typically college-level, where students work on their own at home or at the office and communicate with faculty and other students via e-mail, electronic forums, videoconferencing, chat rooms, bulletin boards, instant messaging, and other forms of computer-based communication. Most distance learning programs include a computer-based training (CBT) system and communications tools to produce a virtual classroom. Because the Internet and World Wide Web are accessible from virtually all computer platforms, they serve as the foundation for many distance learning systems (see http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/D/distance_learning.html ).
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Andragogy and Technology
Michelle Zuckerman-Parker (Allegheny-Singer Research Institute, US)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-881-9.ch005
Abstract
More than 30 years ago, Malcolm Knowles defined andragogy as the art and science of helping adults learn. The essence of this principle is based on the premise that adults learn differently than children. Knowles’ andragogical studies were significant. One reason for this was that pedagogy, the art and science of educating children, had been well researched, but educating adults had not been as thoroughly studied.
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