Introduction
Inrtduction
Imagine that you have finished your high school successfully, and you are so happy because you have admitted in a college in the same place where you and your best frinds live. suddenly, for some resons, you have to move to another state with your parents for a year. New decision has to be taken for your studying in the college. Like, transferring to a new college in the new place , but you don't want to start in another college. Or, postponing the academic studying for a year, but you don't to lose academic year. You remember when you have met your advisor, he asked you if you want your courses to be online or no, and you answered no. Could online serve in the new situation? What should you know about the distance education to take your decision?
Task
Task
To take an informed decision a round something, you have to build a general background of the important things which surround your case.
you and your group will build a background about the distance education by answering these questions.
1. What is the Distance Education?
2. what are the advanteges and the disadvanteges of DE?
3. Who needs the DE?
4. What are the types of technologies for DE?
5. What are the methods of DE?
6. What are the Copyrights and Fair Use issues in DE?
7. What are the problems and challenges of DE?
Process
Process
Learning a bout Distance Education
each student should prepare worksheet in this format:
1. Distance Education:
2. Advantages and disasvantages(not limited to three add as you need, the same thing in the rest aspects)
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3. Who needs the DE
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4. Types of technologies for DE
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5. DE methods:
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6. The copyrights and fair use issues in DE
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7. Problems and challenges of DE
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each student has to do the first task
Distance education
http://www.arcstsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/DE-Policy-rev-2010.pdf
In group of six members, each member will do one task from six of tasks.
Advantages and disadvantages of DE
https://wiki.uiowa.edu/display/edtech/Advantages+and+Disadvantages+of+D…
Types of technologies for DE
http://depd.wisc.edu/0232/Distance%20Education%20Technologies.htm
who needs the distance education
http://sqzm14.ust.hk/distance/distance-2.html
copyrights and fair use issues
http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/distance-learning/copyright-and-fa…
Distance education methods
http://www.uwyo.edu/outreach/ocp/delivery-methods/
problems and challenges of DE
http://sqzm14.ust.hk/distance/distance-6.html
After members finishing their tasks, the group will discuss each task and the members will complete the worksheet during the discussion
Evaluation
Evaluation
After the discission, students will be given ten minutes to work on this paper
In your own words, complete the blanks below
Distance Education:(1 point)
Mention two advanages and two disadvanades of DE(2 points)
advantages
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disadvanages
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the copyrights is:(1 point)
the fair use is:(1 point)
two technologies for DE(1 points)
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two methods for DE(1 point)
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two problems of DE(1 point)
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write a short paragraph around your negative or positive reflection a bout DE(2 points)
Conclusion
conclusion
All of you now have some sense of distance education and I think all of you can determine if the distance education can serve the person in the introduction story as it do with with many people all around the world where in light of the difficulties of life, the distance education is the best and the only choice for some people.