by The Editorial Board, Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Distance learning, as the name implies, is technology that allows classes to be taught not in physical lecture halls with students physically populating its seats, but online instead, with professors recording videos of their lectures, then posting them to a class website. The advantage of widespread distance learning is not hard to see: Rather than having to drag themselves out of bed in 10-degree weather for 8 a.m. classes, students could watch the lectures at leisure and, more than that, could rewatch the parts they missed — not an unlikely occurrence at 8 a.m. The convenience factor, then, is perhaps the most obvious aspect added by distance learning. Professors, too, could benefit from distance learning. Not only could they teach from the luxury of their own homes, but they would no longer have to deal with the perpetual disturbances that plague the classroom — latecomers to class, cell phones going off, the two students invariably talking and giggling throughout class.
http://www.bupipedream.com/opinion/16930/distance-learning-problems/
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