id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_qkptcbnk2vf4bpzhxgdisontsa Michael Beaudoin The instructor's changing role in distance education 1990 7 .pdf application/pdf 3504 180 43 faculty roles, and raises fundamental questions within the professoriat about how it will contribute to the teaching-learning process in the 1990s and beyond. But faculty often do not understand partnership roles they can play when allied with technology in the teaching-learning process. Most educational administrators have no sense of the implications of, or possibilities for using technology to teach, and the majority of faculty remain resistant to, or ignorant of, the computer as an instructional tool (McNeil 1988). independent study that distance education fosters dependence rather than develops critical texts, adequate faculty communication, and strong support services), independent study is actually a comfortable mode of learning for most adults who have been long absent from any formal distance learning process, most educational institutions that sponsor independent study programs utilize some combination of fulland part-time faculty, although few distance education programs employ full-time instructors exclusively engaged in supervising off-campus learning activities. ./cache/work_qkptcbnk2vf4bpzhxgdisontsa.pdf ./txt/work_qkptcbnk2vf4bpzhxgdisontsa.txt