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Tuesday, March 18, 2003
An Interview with Farhad Saba, Founder of Distance-Educator.com - Educational Pathways
... Recently, Educational Pathways (EP) interviewed Saba to get a general sense of his viewpoints on what he refers to as the "postmodern" practice of distance education. EP: We read and hear about distance education being referred to as "distance learning," "online learning," "asynchronous learning networks," "distributed learning," "Web-based learning," "elearning," the list goes on . . . What’s your opinion about this confusion of terms? Saba: The terminology in the theoretical literature of distance education is very clear. The field has more than 40 years of organized theoretical literature in which terms have been defined operationally, and measurable variables have been introduced to study them. In recent years, many new practitioners have joined the field who, simply did not bother to look at the literature. So, when they came across something that was new to them, they simply ascribed a new name to the phenomenon that was unfamiliar to them. Therefore, you see a conceptual confusion in the lay literature.
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