Distance education

Implications of Transactional Distance Theory for Online Competency-Based Education Competency-based education (CBE) has a long history, having been used for at least 30 years in vocational training (Garfolo & L’Huillier, 2016). With the increase in adult students using online education to earn credentials and enter or advance in career paths, some online programs are turning to CBE (Weise, 2014). Institutions using CBE in online programs must consider how the interaction made possible online…

whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into a window.” If I do not have an education, I am not going to have opportunities in life. Also, I will stay looking myself in a mirror, and I cannot see what around me. The whole reason for knowledge is to not just look at it like a mirror, but to open up our knowledge of new things like a window. However, if children face many barriers to accessing an education, they will not have opportunities in their life. Barriers to formal education for…

opportunity than another. Yet America, just like most modern cultures, suffers from power distance and gender inequality. It can crop up in any area of life, but perhaps most spotlight is the workplace. As a hopeful future elementary teacher, I am fortunate to belong to a that sees less of these injustices than other majors (engineering for example). This does not negate the fact, however, that power distance and gender roles will impact my career in the coming years, whether it be in my…

The purpose of this paper is to examine distance learning in higher education, using Bolman and Deal’s symbolic and human resources frames. Bolman and Deal’s four major frames are symbolic, human resources, structural, and political, which together are a powerful tool for gaining clarity, reframing, looking through multiple lenses, regaining balance, generating new options, and finding strategies. The human resource frame centers on the relationship between people and organizations, the fit…

Ethical Fairness in Various Settings Discuss the ethical issue of "fairness" and how it may be perceived in the various educational settings: (a) structured, b) unstructured, and c) distance education Fairness refers to fair treatment and judging of a persons’ behavior by the same standards. The concept of justice and being fair focuses on protecting consumers across the board. Gaberson, Orermann & Shellenbarger (2015) posits that instructors working in the various educational setting whether…

The article that I found is pertaining to designing and interactive program for distance education perspectives on what promotes positive, online learning experiences. It consist of different components that is needed for this particular program. Every program have different components that pertains program needs. This module includes helpful supplement that provides various items or actions to consider when developing programs. I like this module, because it contain many different goals…

Background A team of Distance Education experts were consulted to develop a design for the Anytime Anywhere Open University (AAOU), a new autonomous distance learning institution (DLI). The team used a system approach which allowed them to focus on all aspects of the university, holistically, and address all the interrelated elements that are necessary for an efficient DLI. The first phase of the design did an analysis of the social context and environment of AAOU to determine if there is a…

I have honestly never taken politics into much consideration because I wasn't aware of the impact it has to bilingual education. I knew politics always had a connection with society, but to this degree. The changes the policies they create are constant and numbing to our students success. To them, it's all about the numbers. State testing scores, students are referred as ID numbers that follow them until college, only to receive a new set of numbers. When policies are passed they are not from…

from country to country. No two places are the same. The experience you go through, while at one place, is completely different from another. The main differences between lifestyle in Bogotá and in Germantown are transportation, nourishment and education. Transportation is a big deal. Transportation in Bogotá is a big mess. There are many different types of public transportation in Bogotá, ranging from taxis to buses. However, every single type of transportation is crowded and messy. For example…

importance of college in a person 's life and many scholars weighed in to provide different perspectives on the matter. Some, like Professor Johann N. Neem, author of "Online Higher Education 's Individualist Fallacy, argue that college is essential and most beneficial to a traditional college student versus the distance learner. While others such as Jacques Steinberg, author of Plan B: Skip College, offer very different insight on the value that college has in America in consideration of the…