Learners; employees, students

People are always in the learning process. Whether in school or working full time people can and are learning. Being an educator, I clearly think that education and learning is the key to advancement. The question is how and where to learn? Our industry is dotted with supervisors, high level executives, and employees that worked their way up through an organization and established themselves without formal education. Most employees cannot afford to leave their jobs to pursue a more formal education or needed training and therefore it behooves educational organizations to offer and work with industry to provide learning opportunities for employees and managers to get the education they need. Distance Education (DE), on line learning or hybrid methods can be the solution for many to accomplish their educational goals. Distance education has come a long way from mail order courses and now is technology based and instructor accessible. The success of distance education (DE) is based on a three way partnership between the student, faculty member and technology.

Who is the learner?

Not everyone learns the same way and or has the same skills. An employee needs to know what type of learner they are. This is not referring ...