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What is distance education?

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Distance Education Defined

Personal: Distance education is the art of teaching and learning that takes place in part or in whole outside of the traditional classroom setting.

Proper Definition: According to Moore and Kearsley distance education is a “teaching and planned learning in which normally occurs in a different place from learning, requiring communication through technologies as well as special institutional organization” (Moore & Kearsley, 2012, p. 2).

My MDE Learning Style As a learner, I require visual clues and therefore I learn mostly by doing. With this, online learning is perfect for me, as it provides the needed resources to assist me with my educational goals. Prior to the new LEO learning environment, I would have said that I was well prepared for online learning. However with the introduction of LEO, I get the opportunity to learn something new, which keeps me from being bored.

Results of the preparedness test: I received a total of 60 points, therefore according to the scale I should not have any problems with distance learning.

Library Guide/Databases I was able to use the library database guide without issue. The boolean search assisted me with narrowing down the wealth of information that is housed in the guide. I typically rely on the guide for conducting my research for writing assignments.

Learning Journal

Week 1: Thinking back on the first week, it appears that I missed a great deal of the entire week, as I am now going back to fill in the blanks. This is mostly due to the fact that I am a Webtycho user and this is my first introduction to LEO.

As it pertains to distance education, I now realize that my definition of distance education coming into the course was pretty generic and limited. Weeks later I have learned that distance education is so much more, as it involves technology, teaching and learning methods, copyright laws, and so forth.

Week 2: The second week of this course was enlightening. We were privileged to the teachings of Dr. Otto Peters. What I found to be especially interesting was that prior to his studies and research Dr. Peters' understanding of distance education was limited however it quickly evolved. This lets me know that there is hope for me.

References:

Moore, M.G., & Kearsley, G. (2012). Distance education: A systems view of online learning, (3rd ed.). United States: Wadsworth-Cengage Learning.