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Instructional Table Electrical Outages due to
Boiga irregularis (brown tree snake)
Photo by USGS

"Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well a special organizational and administrative arrangements" (Moore & Kearsley,(1996).

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