This document discusses different delivery modes of distance education, including videoconferencing, computers, diskettes, CD-ROMs, computer conferencing, and email. Videoconferencing allows for live visual communication between locations and has advantages of avoiding travel while allowing collaboration, but can disrupt natural conversation flow and require expensive equipment. Delivery through computers includes options like diskettes and CD-ROMs, which are inexpensive but require access to a PC and have limited interactivity, as well as computer conferencing and email, which enable ongoing discussion but require technical access and expertise.

1. Delivery Modes of
Distance Education
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2. VideoconferencingVideoconferencing

3. • It is a live, visual connection between two
or more people residing in separate
locations for the purpose of
communication.
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• Also known as a “videconference or
videoteleconference”

4. • A synchronous two-way connection of two
or more locations through audio and video
equipment.

5. To take part in a video-conference, you will
need a desktop or laptop computer
equipped with:
•Sound card
•Microphone
•Set of speakers
•Webcam
•Broadband access to the internet.(cpanel.stpaulsscience.org)

6. Advantages
• It avoids the participants having to spent
time travelling to meet each other.
• Saves travel cost.
• The participants in different locations are
able to work on the same electronic
document.

7. Disadvantages
• There is a short time lag between
speaking and receiving a response that
can disrupt the natural flow of a
conversation.
• High quality dedicated video-conferencing
systems are expensive to buy.

8. Computer

9. • A computer is a programmable machine.
(webopedia.com)
• Computer-based distance delivery
systems include:
– diskettes and CD-ROMs
– computer conferencing and e-mail
– World Wide Web

10. Diskettes and CD-ROMs
• Advantages
– Inexpensive and widely available
– User controlled
– Easily distributed through postal mail
– Interactive instruction possible
– Good for many types of content

11. Diskettes and CD-ROMs
• Limitations
– Require access to an appropriate PC.
– Demands a level of technical expertise.
– Difficult and costly to produce.
– Must be designed for a particular platform;
quickly outdated.
– Interaction limited to what is programmed into
the software.

12. Computer Conferencing and E-mail
• Advantages
– Inexpensive and now widely available
– Available at all times
– Stores content for ready access and reflection
– Can foster depth and breadth of discussion

13. Computer Conferencing and E-mail
• Limitations
– Requires access to an appropriate PC
– Demands a level of technical expertise
– Relies on reading and writing
– Subject to technical difficulties
– Can produce information overload

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