Distance Learning

An increasingly popular learning alternative, distance learning is defined as any educational situation in which the teacher and instructor are not face to face – including traditional by-mail correspondence courses; two-way, interactive audio and video classes; classes using the internet; and CD-ROM based courses.
The advantage of distance learning courses is that they can be done on the students’ own time. Gifted students can use these programs to take courses that are unavailable in their local schools, to take more advanced courses, to take advanced courses early, and to take additional courses for enrichment. Students need to be motivated to be successful.

The Center for Talent Development's Gifted LearningLinks Program is a correspondence program especially designed for talented students. The program provides Gifted LearningLinks courses in mathematics, social sciences, and the humanities for students in 4th -12th grade, and CD-ROM mathematics courses via Standford’s EPGY program.

Articles:

• Is Distance Learning Going the Distance?, Spring 2007
• Gifted Students and Technology: An Interview with Del Siegle, Fall 2005
• Gifted Education Goes Online: Distance Learning with Northwestern’s Gifted LearningLinks, Fall 2004
• Research: Gifted Adolescents' Talent Development Through Distance Learning by Paula Olszewski-Kubilius, Ph.D. & Seon-Young Lee, Ph.D., Fall 2003
• "Far Beyond Our Imaginations": Gifted Students Excel in NAGC Award-Winning Course
• Learning Beyond the Local School: Distance Learning Programs for Academically Gifted Students

Additional distance learning options can be found online on the following site:

www.petersons.com/distancelearning/