This document provides an introduction to defining distance education. It notes that distance education involves using communications technology to create interactive learning experiences between educators and students who are separated by space or time. Some key aspects of distance education highlighted include using media such as television, videotape, computers, email, mail, or interactive videoconferencing to enable learning when sources of information and learners are separated by time and/or distance. The document also briefly mentions the history of using technologies like post boxes, printed materials, and correspondence courses to enable distance education.

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7. Defining Distance Education What is distance education or distance learning? Distance education is defined as Distance Learning : Using communications technology to create interactive learning experiences between educators and students separated by space or time and by using media such as television, videotape, computers, email, mail, or interactive videoconferencing .

8. Defining Distance Education Distance education or distance learning? Add your own point of view here: ♣ . This learning happen when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both.” ♣ Rather than attending courses in person, teachers and students may communicate at times of their own choosing by exchanging printed or electronic media, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time and through other online ways.

9. Defining Distance Education History of distance education and technology Paragraph 1 here… ♣ post box : to transfer the materials. Printed materials like text book External programme like University of London in 1858 Correspondence Education courses like U.of South Africa.in1946 .

10. Defining Distance Education History of distance education and technology Some examples of modern distance learning… Email. Telephone. Video conference. Web conference. Voice mail Fax.

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