The general challenge in online education is the failure to embrace the paradigm that online programs are fundamentally different than traditional pedagogy, and must include alternative ways to link learning styles and learning outcomes. Failure to acknowledge the difference and to adjust delivery to meet the delivery medium runs the risk or providing ineffective instruction. The specific problem is that although there is a body of literature addressing online

Distance Learning The Future Points to Distance Education and Web- based Instruction One positive outcome of the Cold War was the advent of computers and the use of technology. Present time technology is a rapid force in globalization and has helped to create a global job market. Society has shifted from one that depends upon service and industry to one that is in need of technologically knowledgeable critical thinkers. With a job

Attitudes: classroom vs. distance learning The question of the differences between conventional teaching experience and distance education is also a factor that impinges on the issue of student attitude and involvement. This refers to the fact that many students have different and often opposing views about distance education and these attitudinal patterns affect the success or failure of a distance learning model. As Chapter seven of the readings state, "...a common

Finally, charts were compiled for each item showing the percentage of each response divided between counselors and administrators and as percentages of the whole, with responses quantified and averaged at this point as well. This allowed for the inclusion of a Mantel-Haenszel Chi-Square analysis, also shown on the charts, to determine the degree to which counselor and administrator responses to the instrument items differed, or if any statistically significant differences

Distance learning, sometimes called "distance education" is, according to Kerka (1996), a method of education in which the learner is physically separated from the professor and the institution sponsoring the instruction. Distance education may be used on its own, or in conjunction with other forms of education, including face-to-face instruction. The advent of television and, indeed, the whole complex of newer communications media (from video to satellites) has given American citizens

The reasoning behind such a project is that the current IPv4 is quickly running out of IP addresses. China realizes that an upgraded Internet protocol could be a huge advantage to its citizens in the future. The question that begs to be answered is, "why does China realize that importance, while the U.S. does not?" The Moore article presents the data that "European languages make up 37.9% of users, and Asian