2. CHEMISTRY AT A DISTANCE
Chemistry is a hands-on, laboratory-based course
that many consider one of the most rigorous in
the average high school curriculum
Many students dread taking chemistry
In many small communities areas there is only
one chemistry teacher.
3. DISTANCE EDUCATION TODAY AND
TOMORROW
It has became a main topic in education
Concept of distance education is exciting
It is the mainstream form of education
15% (460,000) Students of the Midwestern states are
enrolled in at least one online class
4. THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISTANCE
EDUCATION IN CASE YOU WONDER
Training in effective instructional strategies is critical
Distance education courses should be carefully
Adequate support systems must be in place to provide
the distant learner
Visualization of ideas and concepts is critical
5. WHAT IS DISTANCE EDUCATION
Distance education or distance learning is a mode of
delivering education and instruction, often on an
individual basis, to students who are physical present in
a traditional setting such as a classroom. Distance
learning provides “access to learning when the source of
information and the learners are separated by time and
distance, or both”.
6. FACTS ABOUT DISTANCE EDUCATION
Eminent historian Frederick Jackson Turner ran the
correspondence program of the University of Wisconsin
in the late 1800s.
Telemedicine refers to medicine at distance, and telelaw
refers to law at a distance
Research on the effectiveness of distance education
clearly shows that students who learn at distance do not
learn any worse, or any better, than traditional students.
8. TELEMEDICINE
Telemedicine is defined as medicine at a distance
Separation or distance between individuals and/or resources
Use of communications technologies
Interaction between individuals and/or resources
Medical or health care
9. SUMMARY
Fundamental characteristics of distance education is the separation
of the student and the teacher
Educators are using technology to increase access of the distance
learner to the local classroom
Distance education is a dramatic idea
It is designed to be a successful and mainstream approach
It is being used in telecommunications technologies in an exciting
emerging field
