Could distance learning ever overtake traditional methods?
For many years, distance learning has been touted as an “alternative” method of study, one that suits people who
work full time, or live too far away from an educational centre to make learning in...
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Could distance learning ever overtake traditional methods?
For many years, distance learning has been touted as an “alternative” method of study, one that suits people who
work full time, or live too far away from an educational centre to make learning in person at a physical location
possible.
The rhetoric, it always seems, is that you try distance learning once you have ruled out all other
possibilities.
But with the advances in technology in recent years meaning that the range of deliverables to students
is much wider, could there become a time when distance learning actually becomes comparable?
One topic to be drawn on within this discussion is the history of home schooling.
The two aren’t directly comparable,
of course, home schooling is still being taught in person, just away from a school environment.
Data from the United
States backs up the idea that children who are home-schooled vastly out-perform public school students in tests.
Although, this largely is never in questi
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