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Subscribe to the newsletterPublish at February 17 2004 Updated January 06 2022
25 %!!
Distance learning has so far relied on a meager 25 % of the population to thrive.
Reaching 100 % of the population means dealing with the intellectual and methodological access difficulty of distance learning.
How to reach everyone?
In response to this problem, in 1996, at IFAQ (Institut de formation autochtone du Québec- Native training Insitute of Quebec), we created a study environment for distance education for school dropouts. With a clientele whose school failure rate was 100%, whose mother tongue was rarely French, we were predicted to be in for a disaster.
This center operated in Wendake for 5 years for "off-reserve" Indian students who flocked to the city: Montagnais, Algonquin, Cree, Malecite, Atikamekw, Abenaki. The success rate of the 300 or so students who attended this center reached 95 %.
Here are the six elements that were systematically put in place. When these conditions are met, failures are almost impossible.
So, to expand the use of distance learning to an entire population, whether it is within a company, a college, or a municipality, a study environment will be the essential complement. And the environment works with paper-based courses as well as computer-based ones.
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There are six main factors that limit the success of distance learners, and none of these factors are related to the courses themselves:
1. Self-esteem,
2. Work method,
3. Language proficiency,
4. Access to references and tools,
5. Enabling environment and
6. Personal and technical support.
The study environment aims to address these six factors by providing:
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