### placement | distance:

Distance learning
* appears to be most prevalent in higher education.
* can be an important solution to the problems of access that adult learners face
  - strengthen the perception that more scrutiny of outcomes is needed
* case in point.
* complex process between two departments within the same university.
* concept of a teacher in one place teaching to a remote site.
* decouples the notion that learning occurs within a fixed setting, the school.
* enables people to study at home, to save time and money.
* flexible form of education because it creates options to learning.
* formal educational process that breaks the mold of the traditional classroom.
* gives individuals more opportunities to get an education.
* good choice for people who are good at learning independently.
* has a long history and has used many of the earlier non-computing technologies
  - significant potential to reduce capital costs
  - considerable history in American education
  - many forms
  - the potential to facilitate college-high school articulation
* implies that there separation of instructor and student.
* increases access to higher education and professional training.
* involves bringing teaching and learning together through technology
  - learning from resources outside the classroom, namely computers
  - taking a course through the use of telecommunications technology
  - teaching classes where students and faculty are separated
* is an effective means to meet the needs of the global work force
  - emerging practice in the United States
  - extremely flexible method of teaching
  - important and critical tool in the profession of medicine
  - old concept that is being given new life via the Web
  - claimed as being magically able to bring the learning to the student
  - currently a hot topic in higher education
  - in a rapidly moving upward curve
  - one of the hottest topics in educational computing today
  - perhaps the biggest user of videoconferencing technology in government today
  - self directed learning
* is the big trend now in schooling
  - fastest growing trend in education today
  - most rapidly expanding sector in higher education
  - physical separation between the instructor and students
  - process of creating a new learning environment around remote resources
* is the use of technology to deliver instruction
  - telecommunications designed to facilitate student learning
  - wave of the future
  - to learning what phone sex is to sex
  - tool to help developing countries to catch up
* makes it possible to learn anywhere, anytime.
* means different things to different people.
* natural environment for active learning.
* plot against professors.
* presupposes the passivity of the learner.
* progressively efficient way to ensure education for all.
* refers to learning that takes place some distance from a traditional classroom
  - the transmission of course information over physical distances
* term that is being used more and more today in place of distance education.
* time-intensive process.
* uses communication technologies to stimulate lifelong learning
  - the Internet to bring a group of learners together
* vehicle to facilitate learning outside of a traditional classroom setting.
* way of making training and further education more accessible and attractive
  - tackling learning rather than a type of study task
* way to educate without being in a traditional classroom setting
  - help busy self-motivated students complete classes or training

Distance running
* classic sport, almost as old as time itself.
* does help develop endurance.
* is about much more than physical pain.

Focal distance
* is distance
  - measured from lens or mirror to focal point
* represents the angle of aperture used to display perspective.