Distance education has evolved over time, starting in the late 1800s to expand access to education. It utilizes various technologies, like email, internet, television, and post, to deliver instruction to students who are not physically present in a classroom. Key components of effective distance education include strong management, high-quality course content and design, engaging delivery of materials, and support for students' learning needs. Distance education programs continue adapting to changing technologies and financial pressures, and may become an increasingly important model for expanding educational access in the future.

1. Distance Education

2. Content
● Key stages of distance education
● System of distance education
● Practical experience of distance education
● The future of distance education

3. What distance education is
● A diverse form of education, e.g. E-mail, the
Internet, post, television etc.
http://www.distancelearningnet.com/what-is-distance-learning/
● NOT classroom teaching – without
immediate response, face expression, body
language
● Advantageous – students can study at home
at times convenient for them

4. History
● It started in 1873 by Ann Ticknor
● The aim – to facilitate studies for
women and people of all classes
http://www.seniornet.org/edu/art/history.html
● There were time of struggle and times
of favour
● Changing times, changing tools

5. Designing distance educational
course
● Three main models: classroom-orientated
product-orientated
system-orientated
● Main components: analysis
design
implementation
evaluation
good project management

6. We need all components AND best
management

7. Communication technologies
● Only some computer technologies are
suitable for distance education
● Select technology according to:
- age of students,
- size of the group,
- content of the course,
- difficulty of the software etc.
http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/publicat/peraya-papers/icrem/india07.html

8. Educational systems
● Like a body - each part is important
● Important parts of educational systems
are:
- strong and capable management
- content of the course
- program design
- delivery of the study materials
- learning environment
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=aglecfacpub

9. Learners and learning
● Special abilities needed by distance
students
● Needed abilities:
- good organisation
- discipline
- good at setting goals and deadlines
- study alone
- computer abilities

10. The best technology working as a
body

11. Community developement
● Importance of a study community:
- improvement of learning
- deeper understanding
- aplication of the knowledge
- deeper sense of comittment
- reduction of teachers´ workload
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/79/152

12. Moderating
● The tasks of a moderator:
- opening discussions
- setting rules of procedures
- managing forums
- prompting participants
- assessing
- summarising discussions
www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2004/proceedings/individual_papers/thomas_et_al.htm

13. Teaching and teaching roles
● An online teacher has different role to a
classroom teacher.
● Necessary to:
- Create a friendly social environment
- Make students comfortable with the
system and the software which are used
- Encourage participation of students
- Be flexible
- Avoid „authoritative attitude“
http://www.achva.ac.il/sites/default/files/achvafiles/maof_book/8/2002_2.pdf

14. Assessment
● Important for teachers and students
● Shows what has been achieved
Effective assessment should combine
various kinds of assessment:
- Self-assessment
- Collaborative assessment
- Teammate assessment
- Grading rubrics
http://www.pgie.ufrgs.br/webfolioead/artigo1.html

15. Together Everyone Achieves More

16. Challenging changes
● less government money for education
● cheaper computer technology
● increased financial considerations
http://edcetera.rafter.com/the-future-of-distance-learning-why-77-of-universities-already-offer-online-courses/

17. Conclusion
● Distance education has changed and is still changing
● We need to choose the most suitable technology
according each group of students and educational
content
● Certain qualities are needed for distance education
students, e.g. discipline, planning, good organising
etc.
● Learners community helps to gain deeper
understanding, better learning and practical
application of gained knowledge
● Distance education might be a very important way
forward in the future

18. Remember