For this particular lesson, the exercises are not compulsory,
but may help your practical understanding of some of the content,
relating it to your own experience. It would increase the value
of learning environment, if you submit your answers or views to the discussion group General discussions about ODL. The author (harald.haugen@hsh.no) is also open for comments, and will wellcome your answers/reactions to the questions
1. List examples of different categories of learning programmes
which you have experience with or know about, specifying if you
see them as distance teaching, open learning or distributed teaching
programmes, adding brief comments explaining why you have placed
each of them in a particular category.
2. What are your ideas as to how to make a discussion conference
work?
3. In your opinion, which are the central elements of an electronic
learning environment, beyond discussion conferences?