Reflection Unit 1

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In this first unit we read about some differences, similarities and characteristics of open, distance and traditional education.

I think that is really interesting how education is changing, education is a constant process during our lives. In any type of learning: open, distance or traditional the student has to be responsible for his own learning process.
According to what I read, now I know that Open Education has not a rigorous structure, is a flexible system where the teacher-student interaction can happen not always in a same place, the same time, the content may vary. Distance education tend to be more structured even when in this type of learning there´s no physical interaction. Teacher and student are in contact by a web page, an interesting fact that I learned is about how this type of learning began; I´m talking about mail learning, not e-mail, real written mail letters.
Traditional Education is well known, a place, time and content is defined and set. The teacher presents the topic and the student listens and work on a task assigned by the teacher.

Nowadays, every student can choose a type of learning, the better that fits with his context. There are many ways of learning process, in any of these the self-learning compromise is very important. We can mention some elements that in any process are definitive: a teacher or tutor, content, assignments and students´autonomy.