Wednesday, March 14, 2012
EDU7102 Module 1 Mary Cosby The Next Generation of Distance Education
The general idea I gathered is the need for distance education to be refined. It will never replace the traditional classroom, but it will be in every classroom. It will also be in many aspects of life such as job training and business. It is also necessary to refine distance education for collaboration. Distance educaiton has a tendency to be student intructor focused. I have not yet had an assignment that I was required to collaborate on. I can see how distance education would isolate students as in the regulat classroom there is live interaction and collaboration is much easier. I find it difficult to collaborate with someone I can not see face to face. I think it is critical to continue to refine distance education for the ease of use and the efficiency of collaboration.
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Mary,
ReplyDeleteI have done several projects in which I had to interact with other students. We used different types of communication i.e. facebook, messaging, email and skype. I found that the projects worked well and would do them again.
Jeff
Mary, like you, I have not collaborated with others either to complete the same task. However, I do see how it is possible with all the methods of technology that were designed for distance communication. However, I feel overwhelmed to think of my attempt to the task may not be the way the others work or appreciate and therefore their grade may suffer. Not that I am not a good student, but to think of working with complete strangers overwhelms me and makes me consider the quality of what I do to submit to them better be right on. I see its implications and want that for my students, but can't see how it can work until we experience it first.
ReplyDeleteModule 1 Cabatit's Response to Crosby
ReplyDeleteI certainly agree that distance education will never replace the traditional classroom. There will always be a need for traditional education. However, traditional classrooms will start to take advantage of distance education. I guess with some of the schools that we attend they don't feel the need for students to collaborate. The only collaborative project I ever had to do was when I was workng on my master's degree at Ashford and we were assigned to groups where we had to have a live meeting once a week with our team members through the program Web Ex. We could see each other as well as chat and share the tools in this program. it was an awesome experience. The question that I have for you here is why do you find it hard to collaborate with someone you cannot see?