Nature and Forms/Levels of Distance Education

EIT 813 – ICT in Distance Education

Presentation by:

Mark Valentine AikinsMark Valentine AikinsED/MIT/12/0001

ObjectivesBy the end of this presentation you should be able to;

Explain what Distance Education is?

Describe the nature of Distance

Education

Explain the forms/levels in Distance

Educations

Introduction

As Francis Bacon said:

“Knowledge is power”, then communication is freedom. The freedom for people to

reach information and acquire knowledge that

empowers them.

Introduction

StudentsStudents and teachers are in different places

for all or most of the time that they learn and

teach. Being in different places, they depend on

some kind of technology kind of technology to deliver information

and give them a way of interactinginteracting with each

other.

What is Distance Education?Distance education is planned learning planned learning that

normally occurs in a different place from

teaching, requiring special course design special course design and

instruction techniquesinstruction techniques, communication through

various technologiesvarious technologies, and special special organisationalorganisational

and and administrativeadministrative arrangements arrangements..

Characteristics of Distance Education.

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

Nature of Distance Education

Nature of Distance EducationDistance education activities (course delivery systems) usually replace classroom instruction and involve costly resources, implementation strategies, and changes from the traditional classroom structure.

Provides ready access to a variety of people and

information resources.

Changes in Teacher & Student Roles

Nature of Distance Education

Creates opportunities for collaboration between

classrooms.

Supports leaner-initiated study.

Offers advanced or otherwise unavailable courses.

Delivers staff development programs with

minimal restrictions on time and place.

Form/Levels of Distance EducationSingle Mode Institution Distance education is the sole activity of this institution Duties of staffs are different from those at university school

system

Dual Mode Institution Distance education is added to the previously established

campus and class-based teaching Special unit is setup alongside the resource dedicated to the

conventional teaching. It seldom has its own faculty; faculty of the parent body

provide subject expertise.

Individual Teacher Individual teachers design and deliver their own courses

Designing, teaching and administration rest on the on-

campus teachers and administrators

Teaching and learning can rarely achieve high quality

distance education or sustain it for very long.

It difficulty getting a number of teachers to work together as

course team

Form/Levels of Distance Education

Form/Levels of Distance EducationVirtual Universities and Consortia The term (consortium) is used to describe an organisational

arrangement of two or more institutions that work together

in designing and delivery of courses.

Generally intended to emphasize the high-tech character

internet-based communication

Marketers in both single and dual mode institutions use

“virtuality” to sell distance education as a exciting high-tech

enterprise than the older textbook based method

Distance EducationCourses and Programs

Course is usually in sequence of study of body of subject matter that is structured according to norms of the parent institution.

Courses are taught by a wide variety of technologies.

What is common Every course has both learner and teacher Content organised around a set of learning objectives Design learning experience and evaluation

References

Saba, F., & Twitchell, D. (1988). Research in distance education. A system modeling approach. The American Journal of Distance Education, 2(1), 9-24.

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