Maintaining the Affordances of Traditional Education Long Distance

Abstract

We learn whenever we attempt to make sense of experiences. Thus, learning occurs alone or in groups; at home, at work, and at play; in face-to-face settings, as well as online and on television; in natural and in constructed settings; with and without books; for toddlers and elders and everyone in between. Yet the word learning is often thought to apply to that special set of situations we find in school. School (or college, university, training center, etc.) brackets learning into manageable chunks for purposes of funding, delivery, assessment, and accreditation.