3. 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
4. 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
5. 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).
6. 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)
7. 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
8. 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.
9. What is distance education or
distance learning?
Use Wikipedia to find more info about
distance education and distance
learning
Defining Distance Education
10. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Discuss the definitions you found with your
classmates.
11. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Clarify the definitions using the information
you found in Wikipedia and other sites.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
18. 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.