Towards A Sustaınable Open And Dıstance Learnıng Envıronment

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2010-10-08

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Gündoğan, Mihraç Banu

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Open and distance learning applications have evolved as a solution to circumstances where students rarely, or never, were able to have face-to-face or on-site access to educational facilities. Today, with the undeniable contribution of developing communication technologies, open and distance learning has become a unique system. A ‘system’ is a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole to accomplish a predefined goal and the sustainability of this whole must not be neglected. Sustainable design can be summarized as the philosophy of designing the objects, environment and services to minimize, preferably totally overcome, the possible negative impacts of the system for both humans and the environment they live in. This paper aims to outline an input of sustainable design principles to the open and distance learning system. The open and distance learning environments are designed virtual environments for real users. The users of these environments bring in their previously established learning and teaching habits. These habits may be gathered from both formal and informal experiences in virtual environments, or even only from the real world experiences. While designing the learning environments, these habits need to be understood, managed and thus, new ones would be built and presented. In situations where there is a coherence lack between built habits and the newly introduced functions in the environment a negative impact on user perception and performance may rise. Sustainable design perspective, aiming to overcome negative impacts of the system for the environment and users, stands as an important reference in solving such problems.

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M. B. Gündoğan, “Towards A Sustaınable Open And Dıstance Learnıng Envıronment,” 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71632.