The document discusses the history and key aspects of distance education. It notes that distance education began in the late 1800s with correspondence programs and allows learning when the instructor and student are separated by time and distance. It provides access to education for those not in a traditional classroom setting. Effective instructional strategies, support systems, and visualization of concepts are important for distance learners. Research shows distance learners perform similarly to traditional students.

1. Angelita Brooks

2. Beginning in first grade, students have access
to computer technology.
In the elementary grades, computer
instruction centers on teaching basic
familiarity with computers, essential
keyboarding skills, and computer projects that
are integrated with core classroom instruction.

3.  In the junior and senior high program, computer
instruction builds upon the skills gained in the lower
grades by bringing the application of computer
technology to real world situations.
 Computer ethics, computers in society and business,
computer systems, word processing, spreadsheets,
database management, and multimedia authoring
are some of the units covered.

4.  Training in effective instructional strategies is critical
 Distance education courses should be carefully
 Adequate support systems must be in place to provide
the distant learner
 Visualization of ideas and concepts is critical

5.  Distance education or distance learning is a mode of
delivering education and instruction, often on an
individual basis, to students who are physical present in
a traditional setting such as a classroom. Distance
learning provides “access to learning when the source of
information and the learners are separated by time and
distance, or both”.

6.  Eminent historian Frederick Jackson Turner ran the
correspondence program of the University of Wisconsin
in the late 1800s.
 Telemedicine refers to medicine at distance, and telelaw
refers to law at a distance
 Research on the effectiveness of distance education
clearly shows that students who learn at distance do not
learn any worse, or any better, than traditional students.

8. Telemedicine is defined as medicine at a distance
Telemedicine was originally created as a way to treat
patients who were located in remote places, far away from
local health facilities or in areas of with shortages of
medical professionals.
While telemedicine is still used today to address these
problems, it’s increasingly becoming a tool for convenient
medical care.
Today’s connected patient wants to waste less time in
the waiting room at the doctor, and get immediate care for
minor but urgent conditions when they need it.

9.  Fundamental characteristics of distance education is the separation
of the students and their teachers.
 Educators are using technology to increase access of the distance
learner to the local classroom
 Distance education is a dramatic idea
 It is designed to be a successful and mainstream approach
 It is being used in telecommunications technologies in an exciting
emerging field