Lethbridge College’s Distributed Learning Strategy, or DL strategy as it is commonly known, is in full swing. Two cohorts of employees are presenting the college’s success with rural programming at this year’s National Congress on Rural Education in Saskatoon, March 27-29.
The conference theme The Many Faces of Leadership symbolizes how leadership in effective organizations takes on many different forms and comes from the contributions of many throughout an organization.
Paul Gerhart is sharing how video conference has expanded the reach of the School of Professional and Continuing Education’s Public Legal Education Program. Video conferencing is expanding access to this program in a way that increases the consistency of offerings.
Faculty from the college’s four rural campuses are also sharing how they’ve sustained programming in smaller communities through video-conference course delivery. Part of their presentation also focuses on rural students’ preferences for flexible learning options, and how these preferences change as students progress through college.
Lethbridge College’s Distributed Learning Model incorporates three instructional methodologies along a delivery of learning continuum: face-to-face learning, blended learning and online learning, complemented and supported by a menu of many different tools and applications.