1. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Dr. Alaa Sadik
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
www.alaasadik.net
alaasadik@squ.edu.om
Wafaa al-rawas , Iman al-darei , Omayma al-yafai
87188 86820 86001
2. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Lecture One
Defining
Distance Education
Interactive Presentation
6. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance
learning?
Clarify the definitions using
the information you found in
Wikipedia and other sites.
7. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance
learning?
Distance education is defined as : a method of teaching
that the learner is separating from the teacher by time and
place.. and they use different materials which is
appropriate for learning at a distance.. because it aims to
attract students who can not under normal conditions to
continue in a traditional educational program.
8. Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
Add your opinion here … Distance education is more
general than Distance learning, because in distance
education we have teacher or instructor who guide
us what is very important for learning process to
have a clearly learning but in distance learning we
might miss some elements. the Fundamental
difference between DL and DE is the mechanism
that we use to achieving the goals.
9. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and
technology
In the beginning they Send a variety of teaching
materials through the mail to the student
, and these materials include
books, tapes and videos as well
as the use of cable channels
and TV channels..
10. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and
technology
Now we can see sites that offer an integrated service to
education through the web ..also the Virtual classroom
allows the teacher or lecturer to
deliver lessons directly and the
students also can interact with
it.
