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Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Quality Distance Education: Appropriate Interdependent and Collaborative Environments - Joel Levine, DEC 2003
Educators throughout the country, and the world, are seeking to find “best practices” for providing students with high quality distance education courses. The current focus seems to be on how to use the distance education technologies, not on the strategies for integration and use. This paper fosters an understanding that faculty and students need to recognize the importance and impact of interdependence and collaboration on the quality of distance education courses. A more significant focus needs to be on “Communities of Learners” and “Communities of Developers and Implementers”.
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