1. The document discusses various concepts related to distance education including educational colonialism, local control in education, Wedmeyer's proposal to separate teaching and learning to break "space-time barriers", the need for strong student motivation in distance education, Fordism and neo-Fordism models of production, recreating the intersubjectivity of teacher and learner virtually, asynchronous vs synchronous distance learning, and the use of interactive telecommunications to enable virtual interaction between teacher and student.
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1. Educational Colonialism –The policyof havingfull educational control foreconomicgain.
2. Local Control inEducation – Are the individualselectedorappointedtomake decisionsonhowthe
public-schoolsystemfunctions.
3. “Wedmeyerproposedseparatingteachingfromlearningasa wayof breakingeducations“space-
time barriers”. This meansthat teachingcanbe done anywhere insteadof the traditional
classroom.Learningcantake place throughthe activityof the student.Distance educationisa
convenience.
4. Strongstudentmotivationfacilitateslearning –The studenthasto be motivatedinordertobe
successful indistance educationbecause noone isthere physicallytomotivatethe student.
5. Fordism– a systemof mass productionthatwas pioneeredinthe early20th
centurybythe Ford
Motor Company.
6. Neo-Fordism–Some of the mechanismsof post-Fordism,suchasteamworkandflatterhierarchies,
are usedwithinasystemthatisdominatedbytop-downcontrol of workers,rather thana genuinely
sharedcommitment.
7. The intersubjectivityof teacherandlearner,Inwhichlearningfromteachingoccurs,hasto be
artificiallyre-created. Thismeansthatthe learningenvironmentinatraditional classroommustbe
recreatedvirtuallyforastudenttobe able to learn.
8. Asynchronousdistance learning- isthe convenience of beingable toaccessinstructionfordistance
learningatany giventime.
9. Synchronousdistantlearning- isscheduledinstructionbetweenteacherandstudentsthrough
distance learning.
2. 10. Interactive telecommunications –Interactionbetweenteacherandstudentiscritical inatraditional
school setting.Distance educationprovides virtualinteractionbetweenteacherandstudent.