Office of Teaching and Learning

The learning environment, physical and psychological, in distance education programs challenges our most basic ‘school schemata’ and requires a new perspective on what we know about teaching and learning processes. Traditional education isn’t necessarily better or worse than distance education, but students know how to ‘do’ traditional school. If designers begin to develop a broader, more holistic view of instructional planning to include affective considerations, learners will more easily deal with the unfamiliar and learn to ‘do’ distance education, too.