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DISTANCE LEARNING

AND INTERACTION

papers/distance_learning.tex

Alfred Bork

Educational Technology Center

Information and Computer Science

University of California

Irvine, California 92717

714 856 7403 - bork@uci.edu

Wed May 11 02:10:24 PDT 1994

• Contents
• OVERVIEW
• DISTANCE LEARNING EXAMPLES AND EXPERIMENTS
  • The Open University in the United Kingdom
  • Other European Examples
  • The T.V. University in China
  • International School of Information Management
  • Just in Time Open Learning
• SOME VARIABLES IN DISTANCE EDUCATION
  • Fixed Pacing vs Variable Pacing
  • Credit vs Non-Credit
  • Degree vs Non-Degree
  • Courses vs Non-Courses
  • Institutionally Based or Non-Institutionally Based
  • Learning Alone vs Peer Learning
  • Mastery vs Non-Mastery
  • Amount of Interaction
  • Quality of Interaction
  • Learning Media
• MEDIA FOR LEARNING
  • Print Learning
  • Audio Learning
  • Video Learning
    • Broadcast Video
    • Cable video
    • Wireless Video
    • Videotape or disc
    • Satellite transmission
    • Video Quality
  • Teleconferencing
  • Interactive Technology Learning
    • Network-based Courses
    • Learning with Personal Computers
    • Combinations
• INTERACTION AND INDIVIDUALIZATION
  • Interaction With Video
    • Two-way Audio
    • Video with Computers
  • Computers
• PRODUCTION OF DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES
  • Strategies for Curriculum Development
  • Features of Development Systems
• THE IRVINE-GENEVA PRODUCTION SYSTEM
  • Management
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Formative Evaluation and Improvement
  • Summative Evaluation
• FORMING A NEW DISTANCE LEARNING INSTITUTION
  • Choice of Learning Media
  • An Interactive University
  • Formation Stages for the new Distance Learning Institute
• REFERENCES