Purpose of Education/title>   <meta name="description" content="Presentation by Judith V. Boettcher"> <meta name="keywords" content=" distance, distance education, distance learning, distance ed, disted, de, interactive video, education, cren, boettcher, syllabus scholar, technology"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">  <meta name="description" content="Dr. Boettcher is an expert in distance learning and education. Included are writings and other resources for distance learning."> <meta name="keywords" content="judith, judith boettcher, online, web-ble, webble, tower, learning, distance, distance education, distance learning, distance ed, disted, faculty, development, instructional design, faculty support, de, interactive video, education, cren, boettcher, syllabus scholar, technology, faculty guide"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days"> <link href="../../styles/content.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#ff0000"> <table width="98%" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><p><a href="../../index.htm"><img src="../../images/DfLline.gif" width="404" height="70" border="0"></a></p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" valign="top"> <table width="144" border="0"> <tr> <td width="138" align="center"><a href="../../jvb/index.html">About Dr. Boettcher</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <p><a href="../../index.html">Recent Activities</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Services</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/index.html">Speaking</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/consulting/index.html">Advising</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/writing/index.html">Writing</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="../../index.html">Home page</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="99%" align="left" valign="top">  <H1>Purpose of Education</H1> <P> <p>“...provide assistance to learners that enables them to achieve levels of development (and efficiency) that they would not be able to achieve by themselves.”</p> </P> <P><UL> J. Tiffin and L. Rajasingham... </UL> <UL> based on Lev Vygotsky’s work and the Zone of Proximal Development. </UL> </P> <P></P> <P> <TABLE align="center"> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100> <A HREF="tsld015.htm">Previous slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100> <A HREF="tsld017.htm">Next slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=150> <A HREF="tsld001.htm">Back to first slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=150> <A HREF="sld016.htm">View graphic version</A> </TD> </TABLE> <BR> </P>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><p> </p> <p><a href="mailto:judith@designingforlearning.info"><img src="../../images/email.gif" alt="Email Dr. Boettcher" width="210" height="20" border="0"></a><br> Revised January 15, 2006 <br> Copyright Judith V. Boettcher, 1997-2007</p></td> </tr> </table> <h1> </h1> </BODY> </HTML>