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Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies Department

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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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