About Anything » open learning http://www.alstevens.org The personal blog of Al Stevens. Focus is overrated. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:17:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Being More Specific About Openness in Learning http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/18/openness-distance-elearning/ http://www.alstevens.org/2009/01/18/openness-distance-elearning/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:41:38 +0000 Al Stevens http://www.alstevens.org/?p=234 Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University writes on his blog, the Virtual Canuck that there are many dimensions of openness. He says:

Since these criteria of openness have important implications in many dimensions for both learner and teachers, I tend to use adjectives like distance, unpaced, free cost and other adjectives, rather than ones associated only with the media of delivery.

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