
Chapter 17 continues this discussion by stressing the importance of setting up a supportive learning environment for online learners, and provides some practical advice. Other strategies that promote deep processing should be used to help transfer information to long-term storage. Institutions that formerly relied on students gathering in campus-based classrooms are suddenly able and many seem eager to offer their programming on the Internet. The author notes that the decision to adopt online technology is always complex and can be risky, especially if the adopting organization lacks structural, cultural, or financial prerequisites, and concludes that, while education has a responsibility to keep pace with technological change, educational institutions can reduce the costs and uncertainties of invention by following the technological lead of the corporate sector. Learners should construct their own knowledge, rather than accepting that given by the instructor. The information persists in the sensory store for less than one second Kalat, , and if it is not transferred to working memory immediately, it is lost. Chapter 2 presents a general assessment of how people learn, including the unique characteristics of the Web to enhance these generalized learning contexts, and discusses the six forms of interaction and their critical role in engaging and supporting both learners and teachers. The gift weaves bonds within our community and empowers those who benefit from it to create new knowledge that they can then share with others and with us. The word also retains the sense of evolution and growth implied by the action embedded in the verb to turn. Washington Ed. Thus, each of the chapters represents the specialized expertise of individual authors who address that component piece of the whole with which they have a unique familiarity. Working with other learners gives learners real-life experience of working in a group and allows them to use their metacognitive skills. First, it is true to the original spirit of a university, and especially of an open university. Field-dependent individuals have a greater social orientation compared to field-independent personalities. Similarly, institutions accustomed to large-scale distance delivery via print or television are now being asked to provide more flexible, interactive, and responsive Net-based alternatives. The ubiquity and multiplicity of human and agent communication, coupled with tremendous increases in information production and retrieval, are the most compelling characteristics of the Net-based culture and economy in which we now function.
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