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Distance Learning Blog: Best Practices

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Saturday, April 16, 2011. Converting a Face-to-Face (F2F) Course into a Blended Learning Format. So, as a trainer you have taught course XYZ a half a dozen times and always F2F. The trainees provide positive feedback about the course and have indicated that they have enjoyed your lectures and humor in class. However, they have failed to communicate effectively during training which has not produced the desired outcomes. The following topics will be explored in this guide:. Role of the Trainer. A CMS can ...

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Distance Learning Blog: March 2011

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Saturday, March 19, 2011. Example 1: Collaborative Training Environment. Two distinct challenges present with this scenario.  . First, there is a separation of time and space between learners. Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, and Zvacek, 2009). And secondly, there is a need to collaboratively share screen captures and documents. Two user friendly technologies have been selected to solve the challenges in this scenario:  Webex and Google Docs. Webex was chosen to address the first challenge.  . As indicated,...

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Distance Learning Blog: Open Source and Distance Learning

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Saturday, April 2, 2011. Open Source and Distance Learning. This week’s assignment was to evaluate an Open Source class and carefully consider if the course is appropriate as a distance learning course. The course chosen for review was. I specifically chose this course because it included video lectures, which I find to be a nice addition to any distance learning program. Many courses that I have taken in the past have had audio only portions or none at all. For example, in the first video segment. The c...

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Distance Learning Blog: Reflections in Distance Learning

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Saturday, April 23, 2011. Reflections in Distance Learning. When pondering the perceptions of distance learning in the future, I come to one conclusion and that is that the perception of distance education will continue to improve. The perception in 5 – 10 years should yield a more favorable outlook and within 10-20 years, a very new and positive perspective in online learning. There is an increase in acceptance of distance education because of an increase in communication and better availability of tools.

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Distance Learning Blog: Welcome!

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Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Welcome to my blog for Distance Learning. EDUC - 6135 - 4) at Walden University. This blog has been created to respond to assigned prompts in the course. Please subscribe using the RSS feed. I am really excited about this course! I am both nervous and excited to get started on the course project. I am hoping that I can use a real world scenario for my project. I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone and to learning a lot! March 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM. March 3, 2011 at 4:43 AM.

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Distance Learning Blog: April 2011

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Saturday, April 23, 2011. Reflections in Distance Learning. When pondering the perceptions of distance learning in the future, I come to one conclusion and that is that the perception of distance education will continue to improve. The perception in 5 – 10 years should yield a more favorable outlook and within 10-20 years, a very new and positive perspective in online learning. There is an increase in acceptance of distance education because of an increase in communication and better availability of tools.