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Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101
Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies Department
Lecture One Defining
Distance Education
Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101
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Asma AL-Fahdi (68716)
& Kareema Al-siyabi(65932
What is distance education or distance learning?
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Defining Distance Education
Education that takes place when the instructor and student are separated by space and time. oregonone.org/glossary.htm
an educational process and system in which all or a significant proportion of the teaching is carried out by someone or something removed in space and time from the learner.
www.unesco.org/education/educprog/lwf/doc/portfolio/definitions.htm
What is distance education or distance learning?
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Defining Distance Education
Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that
focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not
physically "on site".
Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
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Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
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Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?Distance education is defined as Formal learning in
which the student and the instructor are not in the same place at the same time.www.educationusa.state.gov/study/glossary.htm
Distance learning…Learning where the instructor and the students are in physically
separate locations. Can be either synchronous or asynchronous . ...
www.delmar.edu/distancelearning/student_success/glossary/glossary-d-f.htm .So, they have the same meaning
Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
Add your opinion here … It is generally acceptable to use terms "distance
learning" and "distance education" interchangeably as they are deemed to mean the same thing
Defining Distance EducationHistory of distance education and technologyParagraph 1 here…Distance education dates back to at least as early as 1728, when "an advertisement in the Boston Gazette, Teacher of the new method of Short Hand" was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly. Modern distance education has been practiced at least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.The development of the postal service in the 19th century led to
the growth of Commercial correspondence colleges with nation-wide reach.
Defining Distance EducationHistory of distance education and technology
Paragraph 2 here…Distance education increasingly uses combinations of different communications technologies to enhance the abilities of teachers and students to communicate with each other. With the spread of computer-network communications in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of people gained access to computers linked to telephone lines, allowing teachers and students to communicate in conferences via computers.
Defining Distance Education
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