distance education
TRANSCRIPT
Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101
Name : Ayman Khalifa Al-HammadiID : 94001
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
Lecture OneDefining
Distance Education
Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101
Interactive Presentation
Background:
1.The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century (see Wikipedia) →
2.Developments in various fields of technology (give examples) →
3.Offered new solutions for delivering instruction →
4.Learners’ interests (in what?) were enhanced →
5.Increase in the subject areas offered by distance education →
6.Became one of the formal means of education.
Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Defining the meaning of distance education may provide a good starting point to recognise its elements.
Use Google to search for: define:distance education
Defining Distance Education
Defining Distance Education
‘a term that covers the various forms of study at all levels which are not under the continuous immediate supervision of tutors present with their students in lecture rooms, but which, benefit from the planning, guidance and tuition of a tutorial organisation’ (Holmberg, 1977, p. 9).
Defining Distance Education
Distance education is a method of education in which the learner is physically separated from the teacher by space and time.
Distance education materials are often structured in ways that facilitate learning at a distance.
Rumble (1989)
Defining Distance Education
the majority of educational communication between the teacher and students occurs non-contiguously.
involve two-way communication technology between the teacher and students for the purpose of facilitating and supporting the educational process.
Garrison and Shale 1990, p. 25
In Conclusion
The separation of teacher and learner; The separation among learners; The use of technology to deliver the
subject matter; and The use of a communication channel to
facilitate interaction and support learners.
What is distance education or distance learning?
Use Wikipedia to find more info about distance education and distance learning
Defining Distance Education
Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Discuss the definitions you found with your classmates.
Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Clarify the definitions using the information you found in Wikipedia and other sites.
Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?Distance education is defined as a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, technology, and instructional system designs that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site" in a traditional classroom or campus.
Defining Distance Education
distance learning is a method of studying in which lectures are broadcast or classes are conducted by correspondence or over the Internet, without the student's needing to attend a school or college.
Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
In my opinion the best distance education because the education integrated system that includes learning and the system contains elements shall be more organized rather than learning.
Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology (old technology)Radio is the wireless transmission of signals through free space by electromagnetic radiation of a frequency significantly below that of visible light, in the radio frequency range, from about 30 kHz to 300 GHz.These waves are called radio waves. In radio can the people learn new things by listen new information's.
Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology (modern technology)Video conferencing : by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions.
Defining Distance Education
Time for Presentation
Defining Distance Education
In conclusion, many key features characterize distance education:
1. The separation of teacher and learner;
2. The separation among learners;
3. The use of one medium to deliver instruction; and
4. The use of a communication channel to facilitate interaction and support learners.
Questions & Discussions
The End