Correspondence Education
I really enjoyed reading about the entire history of distance education and I was intrigued that in early 1900 people were participating in correspondence education. Getting a degree or even completing a course would have taken so much longer because of the wait time for the mail and even getting a question answered would take days if not weeks. I find it amazing that people were trying to get instruction to anyone, no matter the distance and people were willing to wait for the instruction in the mail. I liked the quote from Edelson and Pittman (2001) about correspondence study on the bottom of page three. That quote really paints a vivid picture of how empowering and rare getting an education was (for “common” people) in the early 1900’s.
Transactional Distance
This term is new to me. Since I work in a sort of distance education setting with homeschooling families, I was aware of what transactional distance stands for but I have never had a name for it. It was interesting to read about how research pointed to this theory and what it could mean in the future of distance education as it continues to grow and evolve.
Western Governor’s University
I had never heard of an institution like this and I am interested in sharing this with my students. At my school there are quite a few students who work while completing their homeschooling and a university like this would help them receive credit for their work. I think this school offers great opportunities to students who aren’t excited about attending college and are more work driven than academics. I’m definitely going to research this university.
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