This document summarizes distance learning and education. It discusses: 1) The history of distance learning beginning in the 1840s with Isaac Pitman teaching shorthand via mail in England. The University of London then established the first distance learning degrees in 1858. 2) The benefits of distance learning including increased access, cost reduction, flexibility, and lifelong learning opportunities. 3) Technologies used in distance education like web conferencing, educational television, live streaming, internet radio, and web-based VoIP. 4) Distance education programs in the Philippines including schools that offer full degree programs via distance learning and the Open High School Program.