Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Killfiled, was DNA Offers New Insight Concerning Cat Evolution

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> I know that we are starting to do that kind of thing.  I haven't wanted to
> prepare such courses myself.  The only thing I don't know about is exams
> and how they are administered.  I'm all for distance learning and I would
> expect students to learn just as well that way as with ordinary classroom
> instruction.  We all know that most learning is really self-instruction.
> You have to read the material and struggle with it.  Teachers help, but
> most of the learning happens with the student alone with the materials
> (book, papers, homework assignments, videos, slide shows, etc).

This concept was another hard thing for me to accept. I don't know
where I got this notion, perhaps it was the military, but I had this
notion that school would be an instructor standing up front of the
class and explaining the subject matter. When I started college it was
a hard transition because my instructors were like "Read Chapters 1 -
100 gazillion and be prepared for a test on all subject material"

They would then go sit down and that was the end of it. If someone had
a question from the material, they would "attempt" to answer it, but
most of the time, they would fail miserably. That is what lead me to
online learning, since I was learning the stuff on my own, I decided I
might as well do it on my own time.
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Thanks
F Vernon Green

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