Distance Technologies

2.  Chemistry is a hands-on, laboratory-based course
that many consider one of the most rigorous in the
average high school curriculum.
 Many students dread taking chemistry.
 In many small communities areas there is only one
chemistry teacher.

3. •The 11 mid-western states represent about 15% of online enrollment, with
over 460,000 students taking at least one online in fall 2005.

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

5.  Distance education has been applied to a
tremendous variety of programs serving
numerous audiences via a wide variety of media.

6. • Eminent historian
Frederick Jackson Turner
ran the correspondence
program of the University
of Wisconsin in the late
1800s.
•Telemedicine refers to
medicine at a distance, and
telelaw refers to law at a
distance.
•The United States
Distance Learning
Association is a
professional organization
of those involved in
distance education.

7. Many who study distance learning make few claims about the approach being better. Rather, they
say it is a viable and important approach to learning and teaching that should be one option of many
available.

10.  Separation of the student
and the teacher is a
fundamental
characteristic of distance
education.
 Distance education is a
dramatic idea. It may
change, even restructure,
education, but only if it is
possible to make the
experience of the local
learner.