| |
| | Review: Moore and Kearsley, by An (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | They first define distance education, and explain what a systems view is and why it is helpful not only to an understanding of distance education as a field of study, but also to its successful practice. |
 | | Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well as special organizational and administrative arrangements (p. |
 | | But, they are also often the very subject matter taught, and this itself enhances the fact that new computer-based information technologies make it so possible for an autonomous learner to be provided with individual instructional interaction supported by graphics, speech, software, etc. |
| www.ilt.columbia.edu /text_version/academic/classes/TU4000/Reviews/Moore96_An.html (1365 words) |
|