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The notion of distance learning programs varies, as many individuals still aren’t aware of what taking a distance learning course involves or whether an education through a distance learning school is the right one. There are advantages and disadvantages to studying online. Before enrolling in a distance learning course, the following points should be taken into consideration:
A better focus and concentration is a huge advantage of distance learning programs. Wasted time commuting and the distractions of listening to lectures amidst a group of shuffling people are gone. Distance learning courses can be worked on when the time is right and when the student can sit down to fully direct his or her attention to the course material.
Everyone in an online classroom gets a chance to contribute. Many times, students grouped in traditional classrooms are reluctant to raise their hand to either ask or answer a question. In a room full of fellow students, pressure to avoid embarrassment is high. With distance learning programs, students are able to think through a question carefully and can post the answer online to the distance learning school website or message board, when they are ready to do so.
Being taught online leaves very little room for cheating or slacking off. As with live classrooms, quizzes and exams through distance learning programs are timed. Through discussion boards of the distance learning school, it is easy to tell whether or not a student understands the ideas in a lesson. There is actually little chance for people to get by unnoticed while competing a distance learning course.
With online courses, there is no such thing as a 7 am class. There is no driving across town and having to hunt down a parking spot that is close to campus. Distance learning programs give students the ease of learning at their own pace and at their own convenience. Students can study their distance learning course in the comfort of their own home.
With that being said, working at home can have its own set of distractions. The sound of the television, the telephone, or the noise coming from kids or pets can be major distractions. Working online can also lead to temptation of doing something more fun, such as chatting via instant messaging or surfing the web. It may not apply to every student, but things like browsing can take out a chunk of time in your day that could have been used towards your distance learning program.
Personality may have a lot do to with whether you enjoy distance learning programs or not. The online environment and independent study involved in a distance learning course means that students don’t have the social network of other students available. Everything is worked on alone and there are no study groups to provide support. Some people love working on their material on their own, while others do better in a group environment with conversation and discussion.
When a student has a problem while working on homework or on an exam, the student taking a distance learning course can directly ask a teacher for help. With distance learning programs, though, the teacher and students may not be together at the same time, meaning that an instructor cannot give a student immediate feedback and must communicate differently.
Distance learning programs are taught through a computer and a student must uphold a minimum level of computer knowledge. Knowing just the basics of computer technology is usually not enough for a student to excel within an online class.
Some people don’t fully grasp a new lesson or concept on the first explanation, or when given only one example. Distance learning programs assume that the student will understand the material presented, but many people may need the material presented a different way (or in other words) for the idea to truly sink in. For some individuals, the lack of discussion to be able to thoroughly understand the distance learning course material, might be considered a disadvantage of distance learning programs. However, other means of getting extra help are usually established by the distance learning school and students can find other ways to communicate with professors or assistants.
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[This edition of Fast Forward was originally published in our February 2009 issue] No doubt you’ve heard that analog TV in the U.S. goes off the air on February 17, replaced by digital TV. If you haven’t heard, you must be in a coma. Four times as much money has been spent to prepare Americans for this transition as the U.S. government spends on adult education each year. Who says politicians can’t get their priorities straight? I’m dreading the switch. I’m a diehard who still plays vinyl records, subscribes to a daily newspaper, and snatches free TV from the ether with rabbit ears. And I’m not alone. Thirteen percent of U.S. households still depend on TV antennas. Although the DTV transition won’t affect people who have cable or satellite TV, it does reveal an inherent flaw of digital technology. This flaw afflicts almost all digital media, including the digital photos you take, the digital video you record, and the digital music you download. Digital data can be rendered useless by…
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Please don’t throw the brickbats until you have read my entire post. I apologize for the length -this is a complex and emotionally inflammatory subject.
While I sympathize deeply with parents who have kids with life-threateningly strong peanut allergies, I have a practical observation here that, while likely offensive to many, is nonetheless true. Kids saddled with such a tragically deadly combination of severe allergies and critically unseasoned immune systems possibly will be goners — it could be only a matter of time.
The parents of these kids need to huge have inner strength to face what their hearts already know could be the fate of their kid at any moment. And they try mightily to push that dread deep, deep down inside by relentlessly attempting to control as much as possible of the environment in which that child functions. Even though they may be able to alter the surroundings in which their kids function with tireless education and the occasional hysteria, they simply can’t change the whole world. While some of the world can bend to accommodate severe allergies, not all of it can nor will it care to. Kids whose throats close immediately if they even breathe the tiniest flake of nut dust or, as happened last year, kiss somebody who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich hours and hours before, do not have strong enough immune systems to live, period. Sad as it may be, some people are just be too weak to survive - an unhappy confluence of inherited allergies and various environmental stresses.
In skewering hysterical parents who actually do have normal kids, however, Laura does obliquely raise a critical a point - parents of ACTUAL critically at-risk kids can’t keep those kids strapped to them forever, either. It is simply out of the parents’ power to control all the situations those kids will face each day and in life. The child will repeatedly be faced with potentially life-threatening situations, and living to adulthood will depend on rigorous preventive planning, medical and scientific advances, and a VERY large dose of luck in any particular threat situation. Those who live to adulthood (and the vast majority do) may have many scary near-misses in their lifetimes. Sad to say, some day that luck might run out.
Current science points to our constant cleansing with anti-bacterials — kitchens, bathrooms, etc., as removing the germs a child needs to be exposed to in order to strengthen the immune system, creating or at least exacerbating the result. An incompletely developed immune system, combined with a pre-disposition to allergies, is thought to be the cause of these severe peanut allergies. This is an emerging understanding that we need to grapple with as a society, particularly the counter-intuitive notion that our current behavioral and cleanliness standards actually CREATE the problem.
So, in answer to Laura’s question about where were all these kids when we were growing up? They were dead. Today’s kids are very fortunate to be born into an advanced civilization with the medical knowledge and technology to help keep them alive.
And speaking of technology, the thing in peanuts that causes the allergy is a particular protein. Scientists are now attempting to breed a new peanut that lacks the offending protein. Further, one quarter of the kids with a peanut allergy outgrow it, suggesting that the immune system can and sometimes does get more seasoned.
So for that one quarter of the at-risk population (and nobody knows which particular kids these are), parental hysteria is, in fact, a pathway to keeping the worst threats away from the child until his or her immune system strengthens enough to have a chance at a normal life. And those parents pray every waking moment of their lives that their kid will be one of the lucky ones.
As to evacuating the school bus, I do agree with it, because arguably the immune system is still developing in schoolkids. A city bus full of adult passengers? No. At some point it has to become sink or swim for everyone. And then, a prominent medical bracelet, an Epi-pen, and the kindness of strangers hopefully will help those at-risk folks to live, laugh, and love yet one more day.
And you still refuse to address Obama’s lack of executive experience. Heck, even his non-profit experience can’t show success in any way.
During his campaign we were told that his big claim to executive experience was managing that very campaign. Not even *he* trotted out Annenburg and tried to claim they’d met with anything like success in improving education.
I have a pretty darn thin resume, having stayed home with children for most of my adult life, and even I don’t include organizations I belonged to in college on my resume any more. Yet, there was so little of anything Obama could point to that his being editor of the Harvard Law Review while at law school was supposed to indicate something particularly significant about him.
Keep talking about Bush in an attempt to distract from the fact that Obama has nothing… and it’s entirely reasonable, not to withhold criticism, but to withhold approval, until he’s done something to earn it.
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FWISD Adult Education Programs to be Eliminated. Need your Presence to support Adult Ed, Tues 4/14, 5:30p School Board Mtg, 2903 Shotts St.
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Well another year and another budget,,,,but this one may be interesting.
No matter what happens now or next year we all know there are going to be massive cuts in public spending and an increase in tax. This will happen regardless of who wins the next election.
My big question is what are they going to cut. I fear that it will be leisure services and adult education that wil be first hit….in particular leisure centres and night school classes.
I am listening to Adult Education - Hall
Adult education has been around for a while. Individuals who believe that having lost something valuable in your past does not mean that you have to live forever without it. Instead you can strive to make a difference in this world, with adult education. It is not an easy program by any means, but it is something that has to be done. Too many human beings think that because they have attained a certain age, they are too old to be educated. This is not true; as long as you are in existence,
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Teaching English to youth and adults in Central Zanzibar July 3 - July 25, 2009 Volunteers will participate in adult education class at the local youth centre teaching English language to the young people who are still in school and adults out of school wishing to improve their communication skills for future carers. Extra activities will be organising sports and games for young people and children in the community. Study part: Volunteers will deeply study on the role of foreign languages in a globalize world. Language: English Free time activities: We will have 2 days free over the week. Possibilities are a day visit to Jozani National Park, Beach swimming, spice tour, visiting historical sites including stone town, slave market and museums, Snorkeling and swimming with dolphins at Kizimkazi Beach. Other available option will be participating in Mwakakogwa festival. Accommodation: Volunteers will be accommodated at a community residential house. Mattresses will be laid down and…
Wensum lodge is the Council run ‘adult education centre’ where my art foundation is run, it’s a picturesque kind of tudory place
I volunteer for the largest education coalition in Pakistan, set up 4 years ago as a platform for bringing peoples’ voices and aspirations to policymakers and decision-makers. In Punjab we have presence in 21 districts, covering all the southern Punjab. The root cause is not as much a technical as it is a political one. There is no excuse with billions of dollars pouring into education and you have constituencies of serving ministers giving a picture of “stone age” aptly described by one of our partners in Muzaffargarh, a southern Punjab district. In a broader sense the lack of willingness is rooted in the way ruling class and policy makers have traditionally approached education.
1)Our political elite need to show the same sense of urgency that was shown by USA in 1958 after Sputnik, when realizing the importance of education to national security Congress passed the National Defense Education Act, identifying math, science etc. as areas in which the nation had a special stake. A sense of urgency as shown by Japan in the 19th century when in effort to catch up with the Western nations, it issued Fundamental Code of Education, in 1872, that expressed the public commitment to make sure that there must be ”no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person.”
2)we have decision makers and implementers who are still present in 19 century, not only in terms of doing things but most importantly in terms of speed that is needed to do things. Time is not on our side, so we need to move as quickly as possible on this front, doing more at once than we would normally do. A crash program to upgrade the nation’s educational resources i.e. teachers, making the quality of education at all levels(with uniform standards) the center of a national debate and the focus of major federal and provincial programme and last not least making adult and youth literacy an integral part of education reform.
3)There is lack of synergy between education polices and growth policies, as a result we have poor districts and non thriving industrial sector with less than 8% of trained work force. This poverty is feeding into militancy and extremism (Of course there are other factors, but this is one of the major causes.)
Any Pakistani Eisenhower or Kido Takayoshi, listening?
Rabia A. Khan
Video : “Adult Education” music video by Hall & Oates added on 2009-05-05
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“Adult Education” is a top-ten single from Hall & Oates, released in 1984 from the duo’s first compilation album, Rock ‘n Soul Part 1. It was one of two new tracks that were recorded specifically for the compilation release and hit number eight on the Billboard Hot 100.