MindMapping:  The Journey Begins

 

One of our very first assignments was to provide our personal definition of "distance education."  Seemed simple enough, and my take was as follows:

Distance Education is a system of learning that provides teachers/students with the opportunity to teach/learn outside of a traditional classroom setting via the use of technology

 

But, in the two weeks that followed, I came to appreciate that distance education is a complicated system of methods and technologies.  There is a great deal of planning and organizing that is required, including but not limited to Administrators, faculty/staff, technicians, and students.  It's not no where as simple as so many think.