Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Done By :Adhari AL-SaadiLamia AL-KithiriMarya AL-Saadi

Lecture One (Week 2) Defining

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.

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?Distance learning : is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting such as a classroom.

Defining Distance Education

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Discuss the definitions you found with your teamIs the computer and network-enabled transfer of skills and knowledge of learning.

Defining Distance Education

Distance education or distance learning?

Add your own point of view here … a process to create and provide access

to learning . It requires a physical on-site presence . the learners are separated by time and

distance.

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology (old technology)

Paragraph 1 here…Distance education dates to at least as

early as 1728, when "an advertisement

in the Boston Gazette... [named] 'Caleb

Phillips, Teacher of the new method of 

Short Hand" was seeking students for

lessons to be sent weekly.

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology (modern technology)

Paragraph 2 here…Modern distance education initially

relied on the development of postal services

 in the 19th century and has been practiced at

least since Isaac Pitman taught shorthand in Great

Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.The 

University of London claims to be the first university 

to offer distance learning degrees, establishing its External Programm in 1858. 

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education

Reference