A brief history of distance education in Chemistry at McGill University in Canada
Distance education began as correspondence courses in the 1700s, chiefly to connect rural communities with secondary and post-secondary educational institutions located in major cities. Since then, owing to the overwhelming improvements in communication technologies over the past two centuries, dist...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Chemistry Teacher International |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/cti-2018-0033 |
| Summary: | Distance education began as correspondence courses in the 1700s, chiefly to connect rural communities with secondary and post-secondary educational institutions located in major cities. Since then, owing to the overwhelming improvements in communication technologies over the past two centuries, distance education is now well-established and is a major educational approach employed throughout the world. This paper will include a brief overview of the history of distance education in general and a description of some of the author’s personal experiences with respect to distance teaching of university-level Chemistry courses since he began his academic career as a professor over 50 years ago. |
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| ISSN: | 2569-3263 |