Distance Education in Social Work: Planning, Teaching, and by Paul Abels MSW PhD

By Paul Abels MSW PhD

Distance schooling (DE) is without doubt one of the most crucial ways that destiny social staff can entire their MSW measure. With a achieve to a number of populations, DE is mainly fitted to the sector of social paintings, permitting rural, operating, and financially-strained participants to accomplish levels and supply very important providers to underserved groups. during this complete and well-organized consultant to figuring out and enforcing distance schooling elements into social paintings, pioneering professors clarify how you can administer DE elements, talk about the alterations and rewards of the DE educating adventure, review the advantages for either scholars and academics, and deal with evolving concerns within the box. moreover, readers can be brought to the newest audio-visual, machine -mediated, and computer-assisted modalities now in use as utilized to distance schooling. From audio and visible teleconferencing to e mail, networks, and net established classes, we're uncovered to the present and destiny traits and probabilities in DE courses.

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