Learning: Distance Teaching and Learning Conference

It's a beautiful day in Madison, Wisconsin. Take a look!

I'm back home in South Georgia, USA.

The conference was very good, although not as well attended as years not affected by the recession. Lots of people came by my poster session, with many different interests in the topic of FAR distant online teaching.

There were people interested in delivering online instruction in various cultural contexts, including educators from the International Monetary Fund, Foreign Service Institute, and an NGO from Estonia. There were also visiting scholars from a petroleum institute in "the real Georgia", that is, the country, who are interested in online education.

Of course there were others who just wanted to know how they could go on faculty exchange to such a wonderful place as Hungary!

We all agreed that there were challenges in introducing interactivity in online education within cultures that don't practice interactivity in face to face classrooms, and that FAR distance probably didn't matter, as long as the instructor and students all stayed engaged on a regular basis.

Here's a slideshow that was the backdrop for the poster session.