{"id":3996,"date":"2023-03-18T12:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2023-03-18T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T13:37:52","slug":"in-defence-of-distance-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2023\/03\/18\/in-defence-of-distance-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"in defence of distance learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3896\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3896\" src=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/01\/Online-Learning_New-York_0L4A3000-Makiyo-Lio-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Online learning in New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hybrid innovation is not good for online learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hybrid\u2019 teaching seems cool, but actually reduces the amount of flexibility for distance learners. Distance learning was supposed to free us from the tyranny of time and space.<\/p>\n<p>Any time, any place, and pace. Slowly, over many years, flexible to be achieved in balance with their own lives, work and families.<\/p>\n<p>Hybrid is this cool idea that your online learners should be able to join in synchronous sessions with the learners and teachers on campus.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as you include in your fully online programme live sessions which are linked to the activities happening on campus you are requiring the distance learner , wherever they are in the world, to tie themselves to your time.\u00a0\u00a0 They may be any place, but no longer any time or any pace.<\/p>\n<p>It is teacher-centred, campus-centred and risks \u2018othering\u2019 the online students in a way we have fought to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>I think it is a backward step.<\/p>\n<p>I think some colleagues have become intoxicated by Teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hybrid innovation is not good for online learning. \u2018Hybrid\u2019 teaching seems cool, but actually reduces the amount of flexibility for distance learners. Distance learning was supposed to free us from the tyranny of time and space. Any time, any place, and pace. Slowly, over many years, flexible to be achieved in balance with their own &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467],"class_list":["post-3996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-teaching-and-web-services","tag-provocation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3998,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3996\/revisions\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}