That kind of technology will allow them to explore new areas of learning and of thinking that they couldn't explore with the pencil and paper. Fred Hofstetter Fred Hofstetter is professor and director of Instructional Technology at the University of Delaware. His career goal is to help make multimedia easy enough for everyone to become a creator, not just a consumer, of multimedia. He has developed multimedia tools and techniques since 1970. He also created Serf, a Web-based teaching and learning environment.
All students are distance learners, even students living on campus.
When a student doing homework in a dorm room or campus library encounters a problem, for example, and the professor's not there to help, at that moment the student becomes a distant learner. Once you realize that, your perspective changes. When we begin applying the same technological outreach to students on campus as we do to students traditionally considered distant, universities will improve tremendously. A most significant change has occurred. In the past, distance learning materials have been delivered primarily through television and videotape.