this PP about distance education.

1. Distance
Education
and the
Internet
TECH4101Dr. Alaa Sadik
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
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2. Defining Distance Education
Background:
1. The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century (see
Wikipedia) →
2. Developments in various fields of technology (give
examples) →
3. Offered new solutions for delivering instruction →
4. Learners’ interests (in what?) were enhanced →
5. Increase in the subject areas offered by distance
education →
6. Became one of the formal means of education.

3. Defining Distance Education
‘a term that covers the various forms of
study at all levels which are not under the
continuous immediate supervision of tutors
present with their students in lecture
rooms, but which, benefit from the
planning, guidance and tuition of a tutorial
organisation’ (Holmberg, 1977, p. 9).

4. Defining Distance Education
 Distance education is a method of
education in which the learner is
physically separated from the teacher by
space and time.
 Distance education materials are often
structured in ways that facilitate learning
at a distance.
Rumble (1989)

5. Defining Distance Education
 the majority of educational
communication between the teacher
and students occurs non-contiguously.
 involve two-way communication
technology between the teacher and
students for the purpose of facilitating
and supporting the educational process.
Garrison and Shale 1990, p. 25

6. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance
learning?
 Wikipedia defines D-Learning as 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.

7. Distance education
vs.
Distance learning
Education distance is formal process which
aims to redesign and deliver
materials, knowledge, values to student who
are not physically in traditional classroom by
using technology. On other hand, learning
distance is informal process which is a part of
Education distance.

8. The basic components of
distance education or learning.
The separation of teacher and learner;
The separation among learners;
The use of one medium to deliver
instruction; and
The use of a communication channel to
facilitate interaction and support
learners.

9. Defining Distance
Education
History of distance education
and technology (old technology.
Audio cassettes, also called cassette
tapes, are a format for recording and
playing audio. They consist of a small
plastic device containing a reel-to-reel
tape of magnetic information. It was
use in the past for carrying the
information between the teachers and
students in distance education.

10. Defining Distance
Education
History of distance education and technology
(modern technology)
Video Conferencing means a set of system to provide video and audio
interaction between peoples around the world over internet including a
computer system, projector camera etc.

11. The End
Questions & Discussions