Energy education – challenges for using distance learning

Distance Learning: Academic and Political Challenges for Higher Education Accreditation

Challenges of Distance Education

In a traditional course, many faculty create course packs, a collection of journal articles and book chapters the students purchase at the bookstore. Someone at the university is responsible for obtaining permissions from publishers for using this material for educational purposes. In an online course, instructors may want to make these materials available to the students in a digital format. D...

laparoscopic surgery education and a multinational project for distance learning

discussions low-bandwidth, internet-based telemedicine is effective and inexpensive. surgeons living in remote areas, distant countries and especially those with limited resources , can follow the videoscopic courses, meetings, and live surgeries organized by experienced centers, on their computer screen, in real-time and interactively. results surgeon applicants who have a computer and basic i...

Using Computer Assisted Collaborative Learning For High Quality Distance Education

This paper describes a high quality distance learning course in undergraduate signals and systems which is being taught at UMass Dartmouth and is being shared with UMass Boston. The course uses computer assisted, collaborative learning techniques over two-way compressed video. Students in this course spend most of their class time working in groups on problems or interactive demonstrations. Oft...

Effective Distance Teaching and learning in Higher Education

Nowadays, Universities have come across a main transformation. Lack of budget, an increase in the number of university students, a change in the student population, up-to-date and various educational needs of each society require fundamental changes that are coordinated with recent needs. This study aimed to evaluate the features of effective distance education in higher education. Findings of ...