This document discusses distance education. It defines distance education as planned learning that normally occurs in a different place than teaching, requiring special course design and instruction techniques. The document outlines the levels of distance education including single mode institutes, dual mode institutes, individual teachers, and virtual universities. It also discusses why distance education is used and the components needed for an effective distance education system, including instructors, course design, delivery methods, and student support services.

1. Distance Education
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2. Topic of Discussions
• What is Distance Education?
• Levels of Distance Education
• Why Distance Education?
• Components of a Working Distance Education
System
• A Student at the Center of the System
• Five Generations of Distance Education
• Technologies and Media
• Design and Development of Web-Based
Courses
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3. What is Distance Education?
• Distance education is planned learning that
normally occurs in a different place from
teaching, requiring special course design and
instruction techniques, communication through
various technologies, and special organizational
and administrative arrangement
• Distance education is the study of:
– Learning and teaching
– Learning that is planned and not accidental
– Learning that is normally in a different place from
teaching
– Communication through various technologies
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4. Levels of Distance Education
• Single Mode Institutes
– Distance education is the sole activity of the single mode
institution
– All faculty and staff of the institution are exclusively devoted to
distance education
– Example Athabasca (http://www.athabascau.ca) is Canada
leading singe mode distance-education university
• Dual Mode Institutes
– On campus and online
– Sets up a special unit alongside the recourses dedicated to
conventional teaching
– Example: public agencies, voluntary organizations and
businesses that are not primarily educational institutions
• U.S National Part Services (http://www.telnps.net)
• Pennsylvania State University (http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu)
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5. Levels of Distance Education
• Individual Teachers
– Conventional institutions distrusting their teaching by
distance education methods do so without a especial
unit
– Lead individual teachers design and delver their own
courses
– No special unit
• Virtual Universities and Consortia
– The term “virtual” is used very loosely and applied at
times to all three types of organizations
• National Technological University (http://www.ntu.edu) ,
consortium of 50 universties
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6. Why Distance Education?
• Increasing access to learning and training opportunities
• Providing opportunities for updating skills
• Improving the cost effectiveness of education resources
• Supporting the quality of exiting educational structures
• Enhancing the capacity of the education system
• Balancing inequalities between age groups
• Delivering educational campaign to specific target
audience
• Providing emergency training for key target groups
• Expanding the capacity for education in new subject
areas
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7. Why Distance Education?
• Offering combination of education with
work and family life
• Adding an international dimension to the
educational experience
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8. Components of a Working Distance
Education System
• A source of knowledge that is to be taught and learned
• A subsystem to structure this into material and actives
for students hat we will call courses
• Another subsystem that delivers the courses to learners
• Teachers who interact with learners as they use these
material in making their knowledge
• Learners in their different environments
• A subsystem that monitors and evaluates outcomes so
that interventions are possible where failure occurs
• An organization with a policy and a management
structure to link these different pieces
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9. A Student at the Center of the
System
Administration
Instructor Course Design Team
Communication technologies
Distance learner
Virtual Library Support Services
Other students
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10. Five Generations of Distance
Education
• 1st – Correspondence
– Instructions delivered by mail
• 2nd – Broadcast radio and television
– Radio
– Television
• 3rd – Open Universities
– Open University in UK
• 4th – Teleconferencing
– Satellite and Interactive Video-Conferencing
• 5th - Internet/Web
– Computer Networks
• Mainframes
• Computer Based Instructions
– Arrival of the Internet and Web-Based Education
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11. Technologies and Media
• Print
• Audio and Video Media
• Radio and Television
• Teleconferencing
• Computer and Web-based learning
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12. Design and Development of Web-
Based Courses
• Authoring Tool
– Tools for designing instructions
– Example: Flash, Author ware and Director
• Web Documents
– Use of programming languages
– Example: HTML, Java etc
• Integrated Learning Systems
– Blackboard or WebCT
• Web Design Principles
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13. Design and Development of Web-
Based Courses
• Lets view an example
– http://oll.depaul.edu
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14. Bibliography and Reference
• Distance Education – A System View, 2nd
edition by Micheal Moore and Grey
Kearsley
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education
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