Title: Week 6: Part 2 - Reflection on distance education
Course: Blended learning and distance education skills > Section: Course Content

In this part, you will reflect on what it would mean if you would change your blended course in a distance education mode.

Distance education differs from face to face education in a number of aspects that have to be taken into account in designing:

Taken from Designing for Distance Education from the Center of Teaching and Learning.

Changing from a blended to a distance education mode can be done in two ways:

- You use your current blended approach and transfer this directly into a distance education mode. For instance, a normal lecture becomes a web lecture. A face to face discussion becomes an online discussion. Etc.
- You can also transform the course, do a re-design.

What would be the best approach if you want to address the issues in the figure above?

Activity 6.1: Reflect on changing your blended course to distance education mode

Use the following Distance_education_template to make your reflection specific. You can share your reflection in the Course Forum to receive feedback.