That's not to say, however, that teaching in distant parts of the world doesn't have drawbacks.
In 1990, while in New York for a medical conference, he explained his problem to Steven Katz, a distant relative who taught finance at City University and also ran a meat distribution business.
But in the same way that reconnecting with a distant relative can teach you things about yourself that daily interaction with your closest friends can't, distance learning has things to offer that are difficult to find in a traditional university course.
Regional and distant disease were more commonly treated at teaching facilities, whereas gynecologic cancer treated at non-teaching facilities was more commonly localized disease.
Increasingly, teaching institutions are offering remote access to distant laboratories as part of an overall e-learning strategy.
Teaching the doosra, or ferrying kids to some distant astro wicket in a minibus isn't really on the agenda.
Our guide explained in a near whisper that she was teaching her teenage sons how to stalk, aiming for a distant group of impala.
Higher cognitive work required of fellows during distant supervision appeared to limit their ability to invest cognitive resources in teaching.
Trainees learn at their own pace, at their own workstations — no travel expenses for curriculums taught in distant locales, and no downtime away from the office.
During the last ten years, the SD course evolved and we tried several teaching techniques, methods and platforms from a traditional classroom to a distant teaching/learning, up to an on-line course.
A potential smoking ban has been spoken about by prisoners for as long as I have been teaching in prisons, but until recently inmates have viewed it as an abstract, distant and wholly unlikely threat.
