I honestly believe that their are learning styles. However, everyone can learn through these styles it’s just that some are better at learning through some more than others. Take me for instance, I think I am a visual learner whenever I see things done I pick up on it more easily. If someone just told me how to do the problems it takes me a lot longer to learn the information. I know that as teachers we should not make the materials too easy or too hard so I agree that we need to teach students to learn through styles that they are not accustomed to. I also think that if we use more than one style at a time then learning can be fun and that students will be able to use the techniques on their own. Therefore, I do think that learning styles exist. But I do have a question about something. If learning styles do not exist and they are just a myth then why is it that when teachers create a lesson plan they have to have ways of teaching that cater to the visual learner, the tactile learner, the kinesthetic learner and so on.

After reading everyones definitions of distance education I think I finally understand the concept. On the surface distance education is just that, learning from a distance. Involving technology and the classroom in order to teach. But under the surface we get a bit more technical. The term distance learning still means that learning is distant but in this case the only reason the learning is distant is because we have not learned it. So what happens when we put these two meanings together? If we put these to meanings together distance education is any means of teaching or education that is possible in order for us, the students, learn the things that we need to learn. So even if the student and teacher are located in the classroom, if we have not learned the information then the education is distant.