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Well--yes, actually, I did want to exclude some perspectives and highlight others. After all, terministic screens are necessarily a selection and therefore a deflection of reality. But mostly I can supply plenty of negative perspectives about distance ed. myself. I'd would really like to know about what at least sometimes sort of works, although I realize that talking about what works also entails talking about what doesn't. I think Robert said it best. Doug Christine Skolnik wrote: > > We agreed that it was pretty easy to say what doesn't work, > >and to gripe about ill-advised trendy schemes at are a loony a dozen, > >but the fact remains that with the right resources and the chutzpah to > >insist on careful development, distance writing courses can work. > > Though it's also easy to ignore the basic critical-pedagogical questions, > isn't it? > > It > >would be useful to hear positive stories that end with a generalizable > >point that others can learn from. > > This really sounds like you want to preclude certain perspectives. -- Doug Brent Co-ordinator, Undergraduate Program in Communications Studies Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Faculty Affairs Faculty of General Studies, University of Calgary (403) 220-5458 Fax: (403) 282-6716 http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent