This document discusses the challenges faced by students, teachers, and institutions in distance learning. For students, issues include lack of support, interactivity due to the absence of face-to-face interaction, commitment to their own success, and unreliable technology. Teachers face increased workload in designing materials, meeting student needs without in-person contact, changing their teaching style, lack of respect for distance courses, and unmotivated teachers. Institutions are challenged by the costs of technology infrastructure, ensuring reliable internet connectivity, overcoming perceptions of inferior distance courses, and difficulties assessing student performance from a distance.

1. Teaching at a
Distance
Presented by : Bless S. Moring 3D3
Presented to: Mizpahgen Moralla

2. The Problems Faced by Students
in Distance Learning
• Support- This creates a challenge for students who
might need or desire academic or technical support,
and it can quickly become a source of frustration.
• Interactivity- Similar to the issue surrounding support,
the lack of face-to-face interactions between student,
teacher and other classmates can be problematic for
those new to the distance-learning environment

3. The Problems Faced by Students
in Distance Learning
• Commitment- In a distance-learning class, students
must be committed to their own success.
• Technology- Technology that is unavailable or
unstable quickly becomes a barrier for distance-learning
students

4. Challenges Faced by Teachers
• Faculty might perceive distance learning as threat to service
tenure and human resource staffing.

5. • A lot of upfront effort is needed to design distance learning
material. This increases the workload on teachers who already
have material for traditional classrooms.
Challenges Faced by Teachers

6. Challenges Faced by Teachers
• Faculty must meet the needs of distance students without face-
to-face contact. Teachers primarily teach 18 to 22-year-olds
students. When majority of distance learners are adults,
teachers may need to change their teaching style and is not
easy task.

7. Challenges Faced by Teachers
• Teachers have less respect for the academics of distance
courses. This can be enhanced by making distance programs
have similar admission process as on-campus courses.

8. Challenges Faced by Teachers
• Some teachers might not like the idea of distance learning, nor
want to participate. interest and motivation are not success
factors reserved only for the student, even the teachers need
the same.

9. Challenges faced by
University/Institution
Though universities understand some of the challenges faced by
students, they have challenges of themselves which hinder them
from solving the problems of students and teachers.
• Technology needs investment and funds to setup toll-free lines
and computers and pay ongoing costs of telecom and internet
connectivity costs.

10. Challenges faced by
University/Institution
• There is reliable internet connectivity/network to carry large
amount of learning content. This would make browser based
education delivery little tricky.

11. Challenges faced by
University/Institution
• People believe distance courses are inferior to traditional
courses and this reduces the motivation of teachers and
students.

12. Challenges faced by
University/Institution
• Assessing student performance is a problem area in distance
learning. How to do assessments? who and where to administer
assessments? Who would value and give feedback on the
assessments?

13. Refferences:
• https://proteans.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/distance-learning-education-challenges/
• http://classroom.synonym.com/problems-faced-students-distance-learning-1303.html
• https://depd.wisc.edu/0232/Distance%20Education%20Technologies.htm
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