Increased visualization Increased student interaction with the material and ideas Uses a variety of learning patterns of students. There are no handouts that are part of the traditional class. The course has reduced pressures for learning certain materials in the right amount of time. You need to learn certain things and to be able to recall them, but the genuine objectives of the course are for improving rule selection and application or rule use. We are striving to become superior, sophisticated, modern natural resource managers, manipulators of whole wildland systems for the good of people over the long run.
Distance learning is new.
It has been prompted by new pressures on universities, reluctance of the public to support higher education, financial needs of new family groups, and the rapid changes in knowledge that require updating and advancements. I am hopeful that you are excited by the course and that you will find it exciting as well as useful in your careers. I have had students miss class and report a car breakdown as the cause. I have had slide projector lights blowout. Both are technological failures in the learning process.