In 1997 the U . S . Department of Defense founded the Advanced Distributed Learning ( ADL ) Initiative, with the mission of improving " access to education, training, and performance aids, tailored to individual needs, delivered cost effectively, anytime and anywhere ."
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The oldest and most commonly used of these terms, distance education, can be used to describe distributed learning as defined above .'Distributed education'lacks a correspondence school tone and history and thus is perceived as making more use of communications and especially synchronous communications technologies.
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Recently, with the introduction of e-learning methodology, the School has also expanded the way training is delivered, associating the newly born Advanced Distributed Learning ( ADL ) to the traditional theoretical training in the classrooms and the practical hands-on in the laboratories, which is the added value of the School.
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In January 2014 Tutor . com was selected by the United States Department of Defense to help the Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative ( ADL ) develop strategies to improve training programs at the DoD . Over 250, 000 physics and algebra Tutor . com tutoring sessions will be analyzed for research.
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A similar practice has become even more visible in learning projects like Udacity, Coursera, and EdX . Although these projects attempt to " scale education " by distributing learning materials produced by experts ( not classic examples of peer learning ), they do frequently feature peer-to-peer discussions in forums or offline.
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During 1996, he served as Visiting Research and Teaching Scholar at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and in 1995 he was the Cyberschool, a founder of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture in 1997, and the first Executive Director of the Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning at Virginia Tech from 1998 to 2001.
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However, modern electronic educational technology is an important part of society today . internet-based training ( IBT ), flexible learning, web-based training ( WBT ), online education, digital educational collaboration, distributed learning, computer-mediated communication, cyber-learning, and multi-modal instruction, virtual education, personal learning environments, networked learning, virtual learning environments ( VLE ) ( which are also called learning platforms ), m-learning, ubiquitous learning and digital education.
