Chapter 10
August 5, 2009
This is the final chapter that will be discussed in this blog. Chapter 10 deals with Distance Education and using technology to redefine what makes a classroom. Distance education is defined as, the delivery of instruction to students who are separated from teacher by time and/or location. The original intent for distance education was to help satisfy the dilemma of teaching to students in rural locations, but has since become the convenience sensation of my generation of learners. Beyond the obvious benefit of eliminating the physical burden of a classroom, higher education has been able to drastically expand their course curriculum offerings. This is because they have been able to more custom tailor smaller classrooms of more specific subjects that has caught on heavily in the student communities. Lastly, Distance education is the ultimate education technology experience, fusing everything we have learned in this class thus far, into one digital classroom.