TY - JOUR
T1 - Time, space and distance education
AU - Marsden, Richard
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This paper challenges the lingering tendency to understand distance education in terms of the ‘real thing’, that is, face‐to‐face, classroom teaching. It critiques distance education's implicit theory of text, space and time, ontology and epistemology, and examines its connections to the current practice of teaching‐at‐a‐distance. These arguments are developed in response to the questions: who teaches? who is the student? and who or what is ‘distant’ in distance education? On this basis, drawing on the philosophy of critical realism, an alternative model of distance education is presented and its implications for course design, and the role of editing, are considered.
AB - This paper challenges the lingering tendency to understand distance education in terms of the ‘real thing’, that is, face‐to‐face, classroom teaching. It critiques distance education's implicit theory of text, space and time, ontology and epistemology, and examines its connections to the current practice of teaching‐at‐a‐distance. These arguments are developed in response to the questions: who teaches? who is the student? and who or what is ‘distant’ in distance education? On this basis, drawing on the philosophy of critical realism, an alternative model of distance education is presented and its implications for course design, and the role of editing, are considered.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0002423363&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0158791960170203
DO - 10.1080/0158791960170203
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002423363
SN - 0158-7919
VL - 17
SP - 222
EP - 246
JO - Distance Education
JF - Distance Education
IS - 2
ER -