Original Design Considerations Learning is a process that should focus on the learner, not on the instructor. Learning is an active process in which the learner faces new concepts and endeavors to understand them and apply them to tasks that demonstrate the learner s mastery of the concepts. Teaching, on the other hand, should be focused on helping the learner achieve mastery of concepts. These basic roles sometimes become clouded by pragmatic considerations. In a large class, the instructor cannot provide individualized attention to each student.
Lectures are particularly unsuited to individualized attention.
The Remote Collaboration concept arose from some basic pedagogic premises that were formed by years of teaching and facilitating the learning process in a university setting. Learning should be activity-driven. Learning should involve timely and informed feedback. Today s technology allows us to translate these underlying premises into realities that have far-reaching implications in the learning process. The Learning Process is often hampered by conflicts of time and place schedules.