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Peterson’s piece opens the conversation about distance learning. I’m with her on the issue of bundling, especially when combined with the issue that students and teachers are not meeting in the same space. The effectiveness of a teacher to meet the needs of a specific student in a specific coursework would seem to depend upon the familiarity of the teacher to the material and if she hadn’t written the course, then there would be a level of inefficiency in connecting the material to the student. In other words, how could the teacher adjust? Could she adjust the teaching/ the technique to meet the prescribed outcome? A great familiarity of the material, no matter the author would render this issue moot, I suppose. Another part of this conversation might be rendered moot by making the online teaching done synchronously via a medium like Skype. 
A big issue, beyond the content in the Peterson piece (touched on but not too much) is that all the communication between the teacher and student is all written. Their communication depends upon precision of the intercourse. One try gets one answer. It’s like it is all carved in stone. Let me try again. If I write one thing and the student understands it as something other than what I meant, we’re lost. And verse vice-a.