Zambia- Distance learning
The university of Zambia was one of the first conventional university to establish distance learning where regular teaching staff teach both internal and distance learning students. The teachers did not have time to carry out teaching responsabilities for both students and thought that teaching distance learning students was an extra burden which was not sufficiently rewarding and they found it time consuming. This lead the staff to go back to campus based teaching. In the article it states that 25% of students in Scriven's Study would avouid distance learning if they could and 31 % of the respondants disliked marking distance learning students assignments.
Many people dont like distance learning and would avoid it when possible as they find the work very time consuming which i can relate to as i know the blogging work that i have to do is very time consuming and takes up a lot of my time as we are supposed to work on it at least 2 full days a week. I find that sometimes i am concentrating so much on getting my blooging work done each week that i do less work for my other modules. I feel that i need to do a lot of blogging to make up for the fact that we dont see our tutor everyweek so keeping up to date with different topics and debates each week is important.
2 comments:
The figure of students who would avoid distance learning (25%) is pretty predictable. I would have guessed about 30%.
Yes, and with regard to our own blogs, I sometimes find it difficult to keep enough conversation/debate going on to resemble a f2f seminar, as everyone is posting about the same things and therefore the same comments are happening on everyone's blogs.
Helen,
I'm a little annoyed, as I've just responded to this blog....it said something about a 'duplication error' and has wiped out my response by the look of it! Grrrrrr!
Anyhow, moan over....yes, I think this acts as a fair summary of the key points of the Zambia article. I take on board your comments about this module being similar to Distance Learning, and I too, can sympathize with the time consuming factor and the repetition that Alyson mentions....as I read 16 blogs, all about exactly the same topic....all the comments, say the same thing as on their original blogs...I then write prestty much the same thing 16 times....whereas if I were in a real-time seminar, I'd just tell students the once. This doesn't seem a good use of my time!
All the best
Emma
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