distance learners
Off-campus enrolled pupils
Distance learners are students who pursue education remotely rather than attending classes in person.
The term covers various arrangements—correspondence courses, online degree programs, video lectures—united by physical separation between student and institution: The university redesigned its portal to better serve distance learners.
Distance learning has expanded dramatically with internet technology.
- onlineNetwork-connected state
- remoteDistant or controller
- virtualExisting in effect, not fact
- studentsThose receiving instruction
- courseworkStudent academic tasks
Zoom · breakout rooms · modules · video lectures · assignments · webcam · self-paced · tutorials · isolation · flexible · deadlines · laptop · Wi-Fi · midnight · procrastination · independence · forums · lectures
- language learnersbeginner, beginners, intermediate, study abroad student, exchange students
- nontraditional studentsmature students
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