Education across space and time: meeting the diverse needs of the distance learner

Editorial

Sims, Roderick and Kigotho, Mutuota. 2013. "Education across space and time: meeting the diverse needs of the distance learner ." Distance Education. 34 (2), pp. 137-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.806018

Article Title	Education across space and time: meeting the diverse needs of the distance learner
ERA Journal ID	20803
Article Category	Editorial
Authors	Sims, Roderick (Author) and Kigotho, Mutuota (Author)
Journal Title	Distance Education
Journal Citation	34 (2), pp. 137-141
Number of Pages	5
Year	2013
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Place of Publication	Australia
ISSN	0158-7919
	1475-0198
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2013.806018
Web Address (URL)	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01587919.2013.806018
Abstract	As the higher education sector adapts to technological, social and political change, those involved in open and distance learning are finding that differences between distance and online learning are increasingly difficult to define; on-campus students may choose to study online, while external students may spend time on campus and online. At the same time, the affordances of network technologies, which allow extensive networked connections, have given rise to both open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). These conditions also challenge the very nature of education, the value of the institution and the roles of both teachers and learners. This in turn places burdens on those responsible for the design of courses and those engaged with developing the profession and scholarship of teaching and learning.
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020	390405. Educational technology and computing
	390303. Higher education
	400608. Wireless communication systems and technologies (incl. microwave and millimetrewave)
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Byline Affiliations	Learning and Teaching Support Unit
	University of New England
Institution of Origin	University of Southern Queensland

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