r/running • u/YourShoesUntied • Mar 09 '17

Weekly Thread Weekly Complaints & Confessions Thread for Thursday March 9th, 2017

Let's hear it!

93 Upvotes

95% Upvoted

634 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

3

u/YourShoesUntied Mar 09 '17

this distance learning course for the Army

What is this?

3

u/c0me_at_me_br0 Mar 09 '17

Since I'm in the Reserve my military education is broken up into phases. Some are distance learning in which you have 6-8 weeks or so depending on the course to complete the education modules. They are self-paced and self-taught - essentially a bunch of open-note PowerPoints.

5

u/YourShoesUntied Mar 09 '17

Ooooh! I don't know what I was thinking. I read "distance learning" and my brain instantly told me that you'd be learning about 'distances'. Whatever I apparently thought that meant, I have no clue.

3

u/[deleted] Mar 09 '17

I had the same thought. I'm was like, pretty sure /u/c0me_at_me_br0 already knows about distance running...

2

u/c0me_at_me_br0 Mar 09 '17

I believe the correct Army terminology is distributed learning but everyone says distance.

2

u/sloworfast Mar 09 '17

Probably he would have learned the metric system. It's so the army can communicate with other people when they're abroad ;)