WebPearls Web Practices and Applications for Remote Learning Services
	Models of distance education
correspondence-based;  asynchronous communications;  integration of a range of media to provide a rich learning experience video-conference model remote classroom teaching;  synchronous communications, through video- or audio-conferencing links;  possible to integrate with other media (after Sir John Daniel, OU Vice Chancellor - The Mega-universities and the Knowledge Media)

To me, after 15 years of tele-learning activities as an educational technologist, instructor, and independent learner, the WWW, and its various tools and access technologies which together might be called "Webware" is the "killer application" for tele-learning ... the breakthrough application ... that can support and stimulate tele-learning for individual learners, in the teacher-led classroom,  in the course-at-a-distance.

Betty Collis (Twente University, The Netherlands)
Tele-learning in a Digital World: The Future of Distance Learning (1996)
 
 
 
 
 

multimedia
 

a new generation of communication tools which can draw on a full
range of audio-visual resources from text and data to sound and pictures - and which store and process all these diverse data in a single integrated delivery system

(European Commission, DGXIII)

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