Thirty Years of Distance Education: Personal Reflections

dc.creator	Terralyn McKee
dc.date	2010-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:16:50Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:16:50Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/a26bd6c586fd405a947eeaba845e5efb
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/25892
dc.description	This paper reflects on the evolving experience of modern distance education (DE) as a field of practice for professionals and as a medium for student access to education and training. The writer’s 30 years in the field, as both teacher and student, has coincided with the five-stage evolution of DE delivery defined by Taylor (1995, 2001, 2010). The author considers the perceived identity crisis and diverse theoretical frameworks of the field since the 1980s as well as the need for new levels of change management to enable the tools, technologies, and emerging systems of DE in order to create the flexibility, responsiveness, and networking that students require and that teachers need to learn.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/870/1576
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 11, Iss 2 (2010)
dc.subject	Distance education delivery
dc.subject	correspondence
dc.subject	multimedia
dc.subject	telelearning
dc.subject	flexible learning
dc.subject	intelligent flexible learning
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Thirty Years of Distance Education: Personal Reflections
dc.type	article