This means that low-income families and geographically underserved students (disproportionately students of color) who have little access to local resources receive few opportunities to explore the important benefits of the arts.
The study conducted with geographically distributed students revealed that face-to-face meetings become more effective if they are preceded by text-based, asynchronous discussions.
China also has sent an increasing number of socioeconomically and geographically diverse students abroad, many of whom come to the US and settle in various locations across the country (Portes and Zhou 2012).
While conventionally designed distance learning and online courses are good solutions for geographically dispersed students, learners in those courses may feel isolated and disconnected from their peers.
Computer-aided instruction is particularly attractive to directors of clinical experiences in complying with LCME standards and regulating the curricula of geographically dispersed students who are exposed to a variety of preceptor styles and patient populations [ 4].
Aided by busing, it has one of the most geographically diverse student bodies in the city, with students traveling an average of 4.7 miles to the middle school and 3.3 miles to the upper school.
Richard Berman, the school's president, said the hockey programs were started four years ago to attract a more geographically diverse student body and more men to the school, as well as to increase its visibility.
What I found was that within the geographically diverse student body of Smith College, those that resided from the South answered more frequently with "Ree-sees," and those that resided from the North (more commonly New England and New York) more frequently answered with "Ree-says".
This current study, however, involved making podcasts available to a wider, and geographically dispersed, student group who were taught by several different lecturers, the majority of whom were not involved in the production of podcasts themselves.
Effective use of educational theory and distance-learning technologies to provide lectures (delivered by geographically dispersed faculty) to students at numerous schools is one way to continue to provide medical students with instruction in gross anatomy when this shortage becomes reality.
