Adjusting Your Financial Plan When College Tuition Rates Reset
In asynchronous learning, participants access course materials flexibly on their own schedules. Mail correspondence, which is the oldest form of distance education, is an asynchronous delivery technology, as are message board forums, e-mail, video and audio recordings, print materials, voicemail, and fax. However, recent developments in interactive multimedia technologies that promise to facilitate "individualized" and "collaborative" learning are blurring the distinctions between distance and traditional education. Through international collaboration, students around the world participate in cooperative learning activities, sharing information through the use of computer networks . In such cases, global classrooms may have participants from various countries interacting with each other at a distance. Many mediated educational activities allow students to participate in collaborative, authentic, situated learning activities (Brown & Palincsar, 1989; Brown, Co