Kinshuk (Kinshuk@massey.ac.nz)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:56:29 +1200
From: Kinshuk <Kinshuk@massey.ac.nz> Subject: Fw: Barriers to Distance Education Survey Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 10:56:29 +1200
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From: Zane L. Berge, Ph.D. <berge@umbc.edu>
> This message is for anyone who perceives barriers to teaching or
> learning at a distance. Even if you have never taught a course
> online, or even if your organization is not presently involved in
> distance learning, please read on! (If I have sent you more than
> one copy of this request, I apologize. I am using multiple contact
> lists of mine both online and offline and may duplicate efforts
> over time.)
>
> As I identify and try to make sense of barriers to distance
> education it has become clear that a "laundry-list" of obstacles
> to teaching and learning at a distance is only a first step. By
> itself, listing dozens of obstacles is not very useful for most
> educators and trainers.
>
> I think there is value in identifying the most common barriers.
> These appear to depend upon the stage or level of experience that
> the individual or the organization has developed regarding
> distance education. Therefore, I think responses are important
> from persons who are currently using distance education and from
> those currently not using distance education. The barriers
> perceived by an individual may also depend upon the type of
> organization he/she works in, or the type of delivery system most
> commonly used by the distance educator.
>
> I invite your assistance in further data gathering by completing
> the survey located at:
> http://cgi.umbc.edu/cgi-bin/dharley/misc/barrier_survey.pl
>
> Field testing found that most people completed the survey in
> 13-15 minutes. If you provide your accurate email address on the
> survey where indicated, I will notify you of results. Your answers
> should reflect your individual response, and not try to reflect your
> entire organization or any group of people besides yourself.
>
> I would also appreciate your distributing this call for
> participation widely to colleagues or mailing lists to which you
> subscribe/own.
>
> If you have worked on barriers to distance education, or you
> have found articles that have been particularly useful to you
> in this area, I would appreciate your jotting me a note citing
> those documents.
>
> Regards,
> Zane Berge
> berge@umbc.edu
> Moderator's Homepage: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~mpc3/moderators.html
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