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What is Professional Mode

Chapter 216
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
Professionals in the operating core (e.g. doctors, professors) rely on roles and skills learned from years of schooling and indoctrination to coordinate their work.
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Online Education, Standardization, and Roles
Roy Rada (University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC), USA) and Heather Holden (University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC), USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 4
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch216
Abstract
Education is associated with standardization – determining how learning should occur and for what students, is the essence of education from the perspective of those who administer educational programs. The administration of education also requires the consideration of roles, whether of content developer, tester, lecturer, manager, or something else (Rada, 2001). What has happened historically as regards standardization and roles in education, and how does this relate to the impact of online education?
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