Section outline

  • Summary

    Over the recent years distance and flexible learning has been changing the traditional education systems across the world. Many wealthy learning institutes have been forced to undergo massive changes in their approach or risk becoming irrelevant. These changes are largely the results of widely available cheaper educational programmes alternatives made available to more people over longer distances. It is now possible for students to enrol and study in a flexible way (for example, while raising kids or working full time) with an education institution on the other side of the globe. This learning approach does not come without its own set of challenges but it keeps on improving all the time and distance and flexible learning is here to stay often providing people with opportunities they would otherwise never could have dreamed of. This session provides an entry to the world of distance learning.

    Outputs
    • Participants will been familiarised with distance learning from education provider within within Vanuatu and abroad
    Resources

    Resources necessary for the instructor to more effectively offer training

    • TFS, CLICC high power and CLICC NComputing working labs
    • Projector and other presentation equipment
    • Working high bandwidth Internet connection
    • JoinNet Home Meeting clients have to be installed on the CLICC 1 PCs. Must be pre-tested. If simple installation, can be part of the training.
    • Projector and other presentation equipment
    • Downloadable Facilitator Guide
    Collaboration

    Participants are encouraged to discuss, ask for help and offer help in the following forums. It is also a forum used to introduce participants and learn about forums and how they can be used in this and other courses.