response to another students blog

well dangerous daves den,  was a real interesting one to respond to, as i believe he is really on the right track.

I believe what he is saying about the institute being competitive, and to reach those people not able to get to our venues.  A day would not go by without getting an inquiry about students wanting us to come to their town and teach computing.

We have now opened up Cmmunity Larning Centres in Balclutha, and i belive maybe Milton? but i do know that there is a real need out there, of students wanting to do flexible learning.

There are lots of students at remote locations wanting flexible learning and hey why not take it out to them?  I have students in Mosgiel who would love to come to a course run out here, who have completed their National Certificate in Computing and want to do some other course that are run in town, but because they are workers and cant afford to take time off work to go to polytechnic through the day, would be able to do the course at night, this is where flexible learning comes into it.  We have 4 community learning venues in the Dunedin area, and my own personal thoughts are to utilise these venues with not only teaching computing, but other subjects run at the polytechninc.  Bring learning out to the students, and give everyone a chance to learn.   The student will still have a facilitator, to help them, but if the lecturer has written the course content in an easy and understandable manner, and It is easily accessible on blackboard, then why not give it a go