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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - A $100,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has paved the way for the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine to develop a comprehensive online continuing education program for veterinarians.
Veterinarians soon can study at home or the office, on their own time any time, instead of traveling or adjusting their schedules, to keep up with often fast-changing advances in animal care, said Christine Merle, coordinator of marketing for Veterinary Education Online. online. uillinois. edu
The three-year grant from the New... Often, but not always, e-learning will also attempt to be a student-centred learning solution.
Some view e-learning as a means to effective or efficient learning, due to its ease of access and the pace being determined by the learner, but to date little research has reinforced this.
The term e-learning is not very precise, and it should be pointed out that e-learning is just one element of education. So, the term online education should cover a much broader range of services than the term e-learning.
One may also claim that e-learning companies often focus on course content, while online education institutions cover the whole range of educational services.... TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES
Testimony of Dr. Stephen Shank
Dr. Shank testified about the importance of online education, and its role in extending access to higher education for working adults. He noted that internet education is widely used and accepted among most higher education institutions, and that 84 percent of 4-year colleges and universities offer distance courses, enrolling some 2.2 million students last year. Currently 120,000 students are enrolled in fully on-line programs, making this not ... Students wanting to learn any time, any place or at any pace may choose distributed learning. It is an alternative to classroom-based instruction for kindergarten to grade 12 students. It can be delivered using paper-based print material, electronic delivery, face-to-face communication or combinations of these.
Electronic delivery may include:
Online courses that use computer-based course delivery, conferencing, virtual classrooms, electronic mail service, video, or combinations of these and/or Systems that integrate technology and learning in one pac... The education of an individual human begins at birth and continues throughout life. (Some believe that education begins even before birth, as evidenced by some parents' playing music or reading to the baby in the womb in the hope it will influence the child's development.) For some, the struggles and triumphs of daily life provide far more instruction than does formal schooling (thus Mark Twain's admonition to "never let school interfere with your education").... 1. FROM CORRESPONDENCE COURSES TO VIRTUAL SCHOOLS
First developed in England in 1840, distance learning programs became a regular part of academic learning in the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States and Japan within a few decades. By the 1900s, the first department of correspondence teaching was established at the University of Chicago. Academic distance education was mainly directed towards adult learners unable to attend a regular college. Several states also created public distance learning high school progr... |