By Paul Abels MSW PhD
Distance schooling (DE) is without doubt one of the most crucial ways that destiny social employees can whole their MSW measure. With a succeed in to a number of populations, DE is principally fitted to the sphere of social paintings, permitting rural, operating, and financially-strained participants to accomplish levels and supply vital providers to underserved groups. during this complete and well-organized advisor to realizing and imposing distance schooling parts into social paintings, pioneering professors clarify how you can administer DE elements, speak about the changes and rewards of the DE educating adventure, overview the advantages for either scholars and lecturers, and handle evolving concerns within the box. furthermore, readers may be brought to the newest audio-visual, computing device -mediated, and computer-assisted modalities now in use as utilized to distance schooling. From audio and visible teleconferencing to email, networks, and internet established classes, we're uncovered to the present and destiny tendencies and probabilities in DE courses.
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P. 302) Although they were dealing with reactions to field experiences, the implications might also hold true for many fairly new social work distance education programs. In fact, in an earlier article that compared the same reactions to individual courses in the same program as above Freddolino and Sutherland (2000) state, Unlike Thyer and colleagues (1997), students in distance sites did not report major differences in the classroom environments from The Way to Distance Education 17 students on campus.
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