Learning and the Distance Education Student
Dr. James King, Nebraska State University

What about this "distance education" environment? What happens to learning in the online educational settings? What about the teaching and learning issues involved? This participatory session will be an interactive, large and small group discussion on the distance education learning environment, focusing mainly on post-secondary online education, with a strong dose of secondary and adult, non-formal education insluded. General learning principles and applications and examples will be offered for everyone's discussion.

Speaker Bio:
Jim King is an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication joining the department in July 1996. Dr King graduated from Indiana University in 1981 with an Ed.D in Instructional Systems Technology. He has worked at the University of Hawaii, Indiana University, University of Southern California and Mashed University in Iran.

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