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technologies have been proven to motivate students while flexibly
supporting varied learning styles. They have come along way
from the day when computer-based training was little more than
the electronic version of the correspondence course. The latest
widespread computer technology is the World Wide Web (WWW).
The
Web has the power to transcend both distance and time. It
can reach around the block, across the state, around the nation
or all the way to the other side of the world. Television
and telephones can do that, too. But unlike conventional broadcast
media, the Internet supports two-way communication. And unlike
the telephone, the Internet can also support asynchronous
exchanges; that is, it doesn't require users to participate
at the same time. And as its bandwidth, or transmission capacity,
increases, the online medium can swiftly carry moving pictures
and sounds as well as text and images.
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New educational models
Sources
UD Department of Education Distance Learning Resource Network,
Designing Instruction for Web Based Distance Learning, http://www.dlrn.org/
Dartmouth Interactive Media Laboratory, http://www.iml.dartmouth.edu/
CDC Public Health Training Network, Distance Learning Primer,
http://www.cdc.gov/phtn/primer.htm
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