This document discusses distance education and the technologies used to enable it. It defines distance education as delivering instruction to students who are not physically present in a traditional classroom setting. The document traces the history of distance education from correspondence education using the postal system in the 19th century, to use of educational radio and television in the 1920s-1940s. More modern distance education utilizes combinations of technologies like computer networking and the internet to allow students and teachers to communicate and share content through tools like email, chats, and video/audio conferencing.

1. Distance Education
and the Internet
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Raqaya Albusaidi
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2. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Distance education is a mode of delivering education and instruction,
often on an individual basis, to students who are not physically 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.
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3. Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
Distence education becouse the education is more general but the
learnig is the part of the education.

4. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology (old technology)
Distance education traces its origins to mid-19th century Europe and the
United States. The pioneers of distance education used the best technology
of their day, the postal system, to open educational opportunities to people
who wanted to learn but were not able to attend conventional schools.
People who most benefited from such correspondence education included
those with physical disabilities, women who were not allowed to enroll in
educational institutions open only to men, people
who had jobs during normal school hours, and
those who lived in remote regions
where schools did not exist
.
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5. History of distance education and
technology (old technology)
The invention of educational radio in the 1920s and the advent of television in
the 1940s created important new forms of communication for use in
distance education. Educators used these new technologies to broadcast
educational programs to millions of learners, thus extending learning
opportunities beyond the walls of conventional teaching institutions.
The development of reliable long-distance telephone systems in the early
1900s also increased the capacity of distance educators to reach new
student populations. But telephone systems never played a prominent role
in education until the introduction of new teleconferencing technologies in
the 1980s and 1990s. Teleconferencing systems made it possible for
teachers to talk with, hear, and see their students in real time - that is, with
no delays in the transmissions - even if they were located across the country
or around the world.
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=whatis&pg=3

6. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology
(modern technology)
Distance education increasingly uses combinations of different
communications technologies to enhance the abilities of teachers and
students to communicate with each other. With the spread of computernetwork communications in the 1980s and 1990s, large numbers of people
gained access to computers linked to telephone lines, allowing teachers and
students to communicate in conferences via computers.
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7. History of distance education and
technology (modern technology)
Distance education also makes use of computer conferencing on the World
Wide Web, where teachers and students present text, pictures, audio, and
video. File sharing and communications tools like email, chats and audio and
video conferencing are integral to the Internet model.
Business and university level learners have used a conferencing method
known as one-way video/two-way audio where television pictures that are
transmitted to particular sites, where people can reply to the broadcasters with
a telephone call-in system. Television pictures can also be transmitted in two
directions simultaneously through telephone lines, so that teachers and
students in one place can see and hear teachers and students in other places.
This video-conferencing technology increasingly uses the Internet and
Internet2.
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