Terms used in Distance Education
A school …
1. Is an administrative unit
2. Is a legal entity
3. Is a learning provider, imparting skills and knowledge to students
4. Is a provider of services within a community of learning
5. Is not simply a single home-based private educational program
6. Voluntarily subjects itself to peer review
7. Are responsible for the education provided in their name
8. Undertake the assessment and continual improvement their of their quality, giving particular emphasis to student learn learning
9. Provides dynamic interaction between instructors and and students and among students
10. Provides more than just tutorial assistance to students
Asynchronous - Students and instructors are not
meeting simultaneously. Instruction is delivered
and students access it on their own time schedule.
Blended Schools - a school that have face-to-face instruction and and distance education
Distance Education - can be correspondence, online,
satellite, or any modality in which the teacher and
student are not in the same physical location
Online Course Definition
Fully-Online - at least 80% of course content
delivered online with few, in any, face-to-face
meetings.
Blended/Hybrid - 30-70% of course content delivered
online, blending face-to-face and online delivery.
Web-facililitated - 1-29% of course content delivered
online. Uses web-based technologies to enhance
what is basically a face-to-face course. (Sloan-C)
Synchronous - Instruction in real-time. All students participate at the same time.
Virtual Schools - all instruction is non-face-to-face, no brick and and mortar
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