Distance technology, also known as distance education, refers to formalized teaching and learning carried out remotely using electronic communication. It has grown significantly in popularity but creates pressures as some students prefer traditional classrooms while still wanting remote access. Effective distance learning requires an institution-based approach using interactive telecommunications to connect learners, resources, and instructors regardless of geography. A variety of media, from correspondence to video conferencing, can be used to communicate instructional content remotely.

1. Distance Technologies
Raheen Brooks

2. Distance Technology
• Definition: Distance technology is a type of learning that is referred to as e-
learning, which is a formalized teaching and learning system that is
specifically designed to be carried out remotely by using electronic
communication.
• Alternative name: An alternative term for distance technology is distance
education

3. DistanceTechnology
• Distance education has created a lot of excitement to the point where it has
become a major topic in education.
• Recently it has created conflicting pressures on distance professors because
students prefer to learn in a classroom setting instead of online but interesting
enough they demand to be permitted to learn at a distance.
• Another definition for distance learning is an institution-based, formal education
where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications
systems are used to connect learners, resources and instructors.

4. Distance
• The distance aspect of education can to looked at as to effective as any
other category of instruction which is when learning occurs with knowledge
bring retained.The goals of distance education focuses on the design,
development, and delivery of instruction and are not related to geography
or time.

5. Technology
• The technology aspect offers many different advantages. A main advantage
is that technology can be used to promote communication. For
communication to occur two or more individuals have to share the same
ideas.
• Also with communication when it is used in distance education it has to
occur when learners interact with each other and also the instructor.
Communication and communication for distance education have two things
in common which are language and culture.

6. Communication
• For communication to occur, instructional ideas are encoded into some
transmittable form, such as spoken words, pictures and writing.
• Media can be an effective tool because it can be to communicate to distant
learners and the messages must be encoded.
• To have effective communication you have to have an active audience.
Communication can be used to describe the interaction between message
designers and the audience.

7. Media in DistanceTechnology
• In distance education, it is vital that educators focus on how
communication will occur and how to apply those experiences to effectively
promote efficient learning.
• There are several different techniques or use of media that helps provide
learning experiences to students
• Correspondence study- is the longest and simplest for of distance education
it was best used by copy machines and the postal system.
• Prerecorded Media- is the incorporation of media other into
correspondence study system which are audio and video recording systems.

8. Media in DistanceTechnology
• Two-way audio- it was the first media device to be used as a live, synchronous form
of distance education most known devices are telephones and telebridge
connection.
• Two-way audio with graphics- is basically an embellishment of two-way audio and
they are mostly used as a display board transmitter or computer network.
• One-way live video- became popular in the 1950s and is most known as being a
broadcast version of distance education. Devices used are television, video
transmission systems, and satellite uplinks and downlinks.

9. Differences between classroom and online
learning
• Classroom learning offers more of a hands on experience because students
get to visible interact with the teacher more often than online learning.
• Online learning offers more dedication because you do not verbally hear
your teacher bringing up due dates.
• Some students learn better with the physical assistance of teachers while
other learn better from just having the material presented online.

10. Summary
• Technology that is used for distance education usually fall into two
categories.Telecommunications technologies that connect instructors to
distant learners and classroom technologies that record, present, and
display instructional information.
• Distance education has to strongly rely on technology because of all the
advantages it offers to the learning aspect.
• Communication is very important when it comes to successful distance
learning.