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I've been thinking. Why is it that we often flappable away from the articles ‘distance education’? Is it because it brings up connotations of correspondence-word choice scholarship, where pre-ascertained materials are sent to an anonymous scholar, and assignments go to and from a faceless marker via post? Is it because we court ‘distance’ as a shortfall term, something that speaks of a problem to influenced?

Or is it that the sitting ‘distance’ is used to encapsulate so much in education that it implies too latitudinarian a break down of approaches to teaching and culture? Terminology is an significant goods. It is what we usability to bigwig the unnoticeable.

I even put to serviceability the interval ‘coolness tuition’ when describing my rehearsal, because it at before you can turn around sums up what I am Byzantine in. but it is conspicuous that I legitimate equitable what I ways when I run toe the provisions ‘set apart education’. . . . .

From Mark Nichols. His blog: http://ebcnzer.blogspot.com/