Distance learning, also called distance education, e-learning, or web-based learning, involves the separation of teachers and students during instruction and the use of technology to facilitate communication. It has traditionally focused on non-traditional students but is now a major part of education with growing enrollment numbers. For example, in the U.S. over 5.6 million college students took at least one online course in 2009, a significant increase from 1.6 million in 2002. Pioneers in the field include the University of Phoenix, which was one of the first to utilize distance learning technologies and now has over 400,000 enrolled students, showing the increasing role of distance education.

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Foundations of
Distance
Education
Terrell McCall
APT 502

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 Distance learning, sometimes called distance schooling, e-
learning, and web based learning, is a type of education in
which the fundamental components incorporate actual
partition of instructors and students during guidance and
the utilization of different technologies to encourage
student-teacher and student-student correspondence.

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 Distance learning generally has zeroed in on nontraditional
students, for example, everyday specialists, military work
force, and out-of-state people or people in remote areas
who can't go to classroom lectures. However, distance
learning has become a critical piece of the instructive
world, with patterns highlighting increasing development

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 However, distance learning has become a critical piece of
the instructive world, with patterns highlighting increasing
development.

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 In U.S. advanced education alone, more than 5.6 million
college understudies were taken on at any rate one online
course in the pre-winter of 2009, up from 1.6 million out of
2002.

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 A continuously increasing number of institutions provide
distance learning opportunities. A pioneer in the field is the
University of Phoenix, which was founded in Arizona in
1976.

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 By the 21st century it had become the largest private school
in the world, with more than 400,000 enrolled students. It
was one of the first universities of distance learning
technology, although many of its students spend some time
in classrooms on one of its many campuses in the United
States, Canada, and Puerto Rico.

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 An exact figure for the international enrollment in distance
learning is unavailable, but the enrollment at two of the
largest public universities that heavily utilize distance
learning methods gives some indication: in the early 21st
century the Indira Gandhi National Open University,
headquartered in New Delhi, had an enrollment in excess of
1.5 million students, and the China Central Radio and TV
University, headquartered in Beijing, had more than 500,000
students.

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 Students and establishments embrace distance learning in
light of current circumstances. Colleges advantage by
adding understudies without building homerooms and
lodging, and understudies procure the benefits of having
the option to work where and when they pick.

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 . State funded educational systems offer claim to fame
courses, for example, little enlistment dialects and
Advanced Placement classes without setting up various
homerooms. What's more, self-taught understudies access
incorporated guidance.