module 8

1. TECHNOLOGIES FOR
DISTANCE EDUCATION
KOBIE JONES

2. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE CHAPTER
• Chapter Objectives
1. describe systems for categorizing media used for distance education.
2. Explain the technologies used to connect the teachers and the learners
3. Explain the configuration of a distance education classroom.
• Chapter Goal
The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the technologies used for distance education
systems and distance education classrooms

3. MODEL OF COMMUNICATION
1. Sender, Encode, Channel, Decode, Receiver

4. CONE OF EXPERIENCE
• Children respond to direct, purposeful experiences, not only because they are
young, but also because they are learning these things for the first time.
• As learners gain experience they begin to understand more abstract events.
• Media permit the educator to bring sights and sounds of the real world into the
learning environment.

5. TAXONOMY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGIES
• Correspondence study
• Prerecorded media
• Two-way audio
• Two-way audio with graphics
• One-way live video
• Two-way audio, one-way video
• Two-way audio/video

6. CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIES FOR ONLINE
INSTRUCTION
• Step 1- Assess available instructional technologies
• Step 2- Determine the learning out comes
• Step 3- Identify learning experiences and match each to appropriate technology
• Step 4- Preparing the learning experiences for online delivery.

7. 4 STAGES FOR ONLINE DELIVER
1. Linear programmed instruction
2. Branched program instruction
3. Hyper-programmed instruction
4. Student-programmed instruction

8. SUMMARY
• Technologies used for distance education fall into two categories:
telecommunications technologies that connect instructors to distant learners and
classroom technologies that record, present and display instructional information.