1. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Dr. Alaa Sadik
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
Completed by:
Shamsa Al-muqbali 92099
Noora AL-Tabai 94985
www.alaasadik.net
alaasadik@squ.edu.om
2. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Lecture One (Week 2)
Defining
Distance Education
Interactive Presentation
3. Defining Distance Education
Background:
1.The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century (see
Wikipedia) →
2.Developments in various fields of technology (give
examples) →
3.Offered new solutions for delivering instruction →
4.Learners’ interests (in what?) were enhanced →
5.Increase in the subject areas offered by distance
education →
6.Became one of the formal means of education.
4. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Defining the meaning of distance education may provide a
good starting point to recognise its elements.
Use Google to search for:
define:distance education
5. Distance education is a mode of delivering
education and instruction, often on an
individual basis, to students who are not
physically present in a traditional setting such
as a classroom.
6. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Use Wikipedia to find more info about
distance education and distance
learning
7. Distance education & distance
learning:
Distance learning:
is improved capabilities in knowledge and/or
behaviors as a result of mediated experiences that are
constraints by time and/or distance such that the learner
does not share the same situation with what is being
learned.
Distance education:
is a mode of delivering education and instruction, often
on an individual basis, to students who are not
physically present in a traditional setting such as a
classroom.
9. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Clarify the definitions using the information
you found in Wikipedia and other sites.
10. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Distance education is defined as Distance education
is an approach that focuses in delivering
teaching to students who are not physically
present in a classroom.
11. Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
Add your own point of view here we think that
Distance education is different from distance
learning because distance is more general. It
require more planning and support and
distance learning class generally does not
include a scheduled classroom meeting, the
environment differs significantly from the
classroom. (It is both and choosing if DE or DL
will depend on the way of setting)
12. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and
technology (old technology)
the earliest version of distance education,
developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe
(Great Britain, France, Germany), and the United
States, and spread swiftly.
13. cont,
The most import technology
was printer. Gutenberg who
introduced printing to Europe.
His invention of mechanical
movable type printing started
the Printing Revolution and is
widely regarded as the most
important event of the modern
period.
17. Defining Distance Education
In conclusion, many key features characterize
distance education:
1. The separation of teacher and learner;
2. The separation among learners;
3. The use of one medium to deliver instruction;
and
4. The use of a communication channel to
facilitate interaction and support learners.
