It serves learners throughout the world. Much of BOU's instruction is delivered via radio and print, along with some video and telephone interaction. More recently, they have added email and the World Wide Web as tools for providing resources and communication with instructors and tutors. DCD for Virtual Classrooms BOU has recently begun designing Internet-based courses using distributed course delivery. They've even designed a virtual student workplace with a bookcase containing shelves of videotapes, books, notes and other resources, a notebook and a laptop computer, along with a drawing board, a pinboard with photographs on it, and a window.
Isolation is one of the most debilitating aspects of distance learning.
Other examples Examples of all three applications of distributed course delivery continue to proliferate. A good place to start looking for models that might apply to your own course is the World Lecture Hall , which contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. For example, you will find course syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, etc. Distributed learning on the World Wide Web. World Lecture Hall.