Distance Education for Adult Learners: Developments in the Canadian Post-Secondary System
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Abstract
This paper traces recent developments in the design, development and delivery of distance education. It uses data from Statistics Canada's 1994 Adult Education and Training Survey to construct a profile of current provision by colleges and universities. Enrolments across a range of post-secondary programs are noted as is the use of different communication technologies. This overview and profile form the basis for a discussion of future directions in the post-secondary provision of distance education for adult learners. Résumé Cet article examine les développements récents dans le monde de la conception, de la préparation et de la livraison d'activités de formation à distance. À partir des résultats de l'Enquête sur l'éducation et sur la formation des adultes (Statistique Canada, 1994), on esquisse un bilan de ces activités. On note que les inscriptions s'étendent sur un vaste éventail de programmes et que l'on fait appel aux technologies de toutes sortes. Cette ébauche constitue la toile de fond permettant de présenter les enjeux de la formation à distance en milieu post-secondaire.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it