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Re: Distance Learning



At 07:36 AM 6/23/98 -0400, Herb Gottleib wrote:

The "art" of teaching and learning will become a science
when we understand more about it. In science fiction
we read about teaching machines that clamp to the
head and takes seconds to transfer information.
Now it may take more than 12 years for the same transfer.


But ... learning is more than information. Teaching is more than mere
information transfer, I hope.

I agree with Dan McIsaac - there's no magic bullet. Good teaching and good
learning require hard work by both the instructor and the student.

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