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10/08/15 - 5:53:29 AM - Emre Hi Cee Cee, Great to hear from you finally! I was honpig you'd put a comment here since we've been chatting via email on the topic recently. I feel much the same way as you do that education is not so much about content but about the interaction between student-to-student and student-to-instructor while exploring content, so the idea of creating stand alone e-learning courseware doesn't appeal to me so much. In every modality that I support, be it paper-based correspondence, classroom, web-enabled or a hybrid of any of these, I believe they all necessitate the involvement of an instructor, tutor or facilitator (whichever word you prefer... *grin*). Can we afford to create the same course offered in multiple modalities because of an over-arching vision or mandate that can be stated as to provide the full range of academic programmes to our entire student population when our student population is dispersed geographically, like is the case with the Canadian Military? OUCH! Maybe not. So what do we do at the Royal Military College of Canada? Do we scrap classroom courses because they're not universally accessible due to the fact that they are offered only in one location while our Canadian Military members can be found around the world? Do we focus on web-enabled distance courses because they can foster high degrees of student-to-student and student-to-instructor interaction? But what about students who have limited Internet access due to military deployments? Do we sacrifice the student-to-student and student-to-instructor interaction in order to roll out a suite of correspondence-type courses that students can take anywhere, including Afghanistan? It's not really clear in my mind which of these is the best. So, what we're doing is a mix of them all. Some courses are only offered onsite or via correspondence, others are offered in two modalities, onsite or web-enabled, still others are currently offered in all three modalities! We've got a rag-tag combination of all these things with no apparent pattern. Because of this, we lack effectiveness and efficiency. Time will tell how we solve this issue. Thanks for your comment! Submit your comments and they will be posted here. Make this comment Public or Private to the Author only: Name: Email: *Your email will NOT be posted. This is for administrative purposes only. Comments: *Your Comments WILL be posted to the AUTHOR ONLY if you select PRIVATE and to this PUBLIC PAGE if you select PUBLIC, so write accordingly.   Please enter the code in the image: