Distance education has evolved from correspondence courses in the 1700s to utilize modern technologies like the internet and audio/video. It allows students who cannot attend traditional in-person classes to learn remotely through asynchronous communication methods. Distance education programs are structured with administrators, faculty, and support staff to deliver course content to students and facilitate interaction between students, instructors, and course material through various technologies including print, computers, video and audio.

1. Distance
Education:
ALTERNATIV
E LEARNING
SYSTEM
BEYOND
BOARDERS

2. CONCEPT AND CONTEXT OF
DISTANCE EDUCATION
 The history of distance education could be trace
back to the early 1700’s in the form of
correspondence education, but technology base
distance education might be best link to the
introduction of audio visual devices into the school
in the early 1900’s .
 In tracing the history of distance education, the
introduction of television as an instructional
medium appears as an important entry point for
theories and practitioners outside of the
correspondence education tradition, and marks
parallel paths for correspondence study and
instructional media.

3. DISTANCE EDUCATION
 Is synonymous to distance learning, open learning,
e-learning online learning or web-based learning.
 A field of education the focuses on the pedagogy
and andragogy technology, and instructional
system design the aim to deliver education to
students who are not yet physically on site.
 Education were teachers and students are
separated and the place and time they
communicate at times of there own choosing by
exchanging printed or electronic media or trough
technology that allows them to communicate in
real time and through other online ways.

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF
DISTANCE EDUCATION
 DE provides learning opportunities to individual
learners and groups who may not have the
chance and time to attend formal schooling are
face to face instruction due to the physical
disabilities, ailment, work early marriage.
 DE is learner centred.
 DE has an organizational structure and cleared
institutional system and procedures for managing
and ensuring academic supervision.
 DE is an out growth of research on theoretical and
conceptual models of learning.

5. ADVANTAGES OF DISTANCE
EDUCATION
 DE does not require commuting.
 You complete most of the classes at your convenience.
 Live anywhere, study from anywhere while pursuing the
education of the choice.
 Gain extra knowledge.
 Self-paced learning.
 Accessibility.
 Convenience and flexibility.
 Interaction
 Individualized instruction.
 Vast resources readily available.
 Potential.
 Cost.

6. KEY PLAYERS IN DISTANCE
EDUCATION
 STUDENTS - meeting the instructional needs of
students in the corner stone of every effective
distance education program and the test by
which all efforts in the field are judge.
 FACULTY - the success of distance education
efforts rest squarely shoulders of the faculty.
 FACILITATORS – the instructors often find it
beneficial to rely on a site facilitator to act as
a bridge between the students and instructor.

7. SUPPORT STAFF – this individuals are the
silent heroes of the distance education
enterprise and ensure that the myriad
details required for program success are
built with effectively.
ADMINISTRATORS – although
administrator or typically influential in
planning institution distance education
program.

8. SYNCHRONOUS vs.
ASYNCRONOUS INTERACTION
 TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM – learners and
instructors interact synchronously,
interaction in real time.
 DE – how ever learners and instructors
interact asynchronously, interaction
between are delayed.

9. 4 TYPES OF INTERACTION IN
DISTANCE EDUCATION
1. LEARNER-CONTENT INTERACTION
* the first type of interaction takes place between the
students and the content or the subject matter that is delivered to
him/her.
2. LEARNER-INSTRUCTOR
* the interaction that transpire between students and
instructor is intended to help reinforce student understanding of the
material or elucidate meaning.
3. LEARNER – LEARNER
 * the interaction that occurs among students is extremely
dissimilar between a web-based learning and a traditional setting.
4. LEARNER-TEACHNOLOGY /SYSTEM
 * students experience with computers can affect there
learning in distance education as well as improve their computer
skills.

10. THE 4 MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES
1. PRINT TECHNOLOGY
* the original form of distance learning
was correspondence courses , in which print
materials mailed to students and returned to the
through the postal system.
2. COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
* with the increase popularity of the
internet, computer technology are receiving
more and more attention as a means of
delivering distance learning.

11. 3. VIDEO TECHNOLOGY –
* the ability to see and hear and an
instructor offers opportunities for
behaviour modelling, demonstration and
instructions of abstract concept.
4. AUDIO TECHNOLOGY –
* audio or voice technology offer
cause effective race to enhance
distance learning curses.