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Online Learning At Marylhurst
Distance learning, or online learning, is more than just an alternative medium for classes. For Marylhurst, it’s an essential part of making education accessible to students with busy lives. Distance learning makes it possible for adult learners to pursue their educational goals while juggling the commitments of work, travel and family. As a result, Marylhurst has developed specialized expertise in the design and management of online courses.
A Unique Approach
Marylhurst understands the strategic difference between online and classroom learning. There are both benefits and limitations of the classroom experience, in which a group of students and an instructor show up in the same place at the same time to learn together.
Marylhurst designs online courses to foster a unique sense of community, dialogue and interaction, while at the same time allowing students to connect with the course online at any time, day or night.
The result is a more experiential educational experience, in which assignments send students out into the world, and the online classroom course becomes a place to report on experiences and learning. This taps one of the essential aspects of a Marylhurst education – the impact of life on learning, and the corresponding impact of learning on life.