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Thursday, September 12, 2002
http://www.usdla.org/html/journal/SEP02_Issue/editor.html The Cat and the Bag: An Alternative Ending Drs. Donald G. and Elizabeth Perrin Some time ago, we included a wry comment from Stephen Downes on the position of distance learning in the traditional academic setting. It is worth repeating. "Everybody keeps trying to stuff the DE cat back into the F2F bag. I’m going to do my damndest, in my own small way, to help the cat stay out. It is well and truly out. But that does not stop some people from holding and even defending the bag. My own interest, of course, is in the cat." Our new ending to the 'cat stuffing' is that the bag is no longer being defended. Indeed, the bag is in process of redesign and the cat is a welcome visitor! Distance learning teaching/learning design is more and more often made integral to on-campus classes. Several forces are at work to bring about this change. Faculty are becoming familiar with new learning technologies, integrating them with traditional methods of instruction....
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