Enhancing Telecourses with Online Activities Explore tools for transforming standard telecourses. ALS Delivers Internet Literacy ALS delivers Internet Literacy to 200 communications workers. This is the question that forward-looking educators are grappling with as they discover, with excitement and some trepidation, that technology is providing ever more ways to communicate at a reasonable cost to more and more people, nationally and internationally. But as is often the case, dazzling technological developments are evolving at a more rapid rate than educators can assimilate them into learning strategies.
Comprehensive answers are elusive.
This is particularly true when adults are the learners. The answer lies in our recognition of different learning styles. Some people have learned to rely on the written word, responding to the logical, sequential habits of mind it enforces. Others master concepts through visual or graphic displays following a more intuitive process. Some learn best on their own time, alone, controlling their own schedules and thoughts.