Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies DepartmentCompleted by: Ibtisam Al farsi (90865)Anwaar Al Hinaai (89555)

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Lecture One (Week 2) Defining

Distance Education

Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Interactive Presentation

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.

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Defining the meaning of distance education may provide a good starting point to recognise its elements.

Use Google to search for: define:distance education

Defining Distance Education

distance education involves two-way communication between teacher and student for the purpose of facilitating and supporting the educational process

What is distance education or distance learning?

Use Wikipedia to find more info about distance education and distance learning

Defining Distance Education

Distance education & distance learning:

is improved capabilities in knowledge and/or behaviors as a result of mediated experiences that are constraints by time and/or distance such that the learner does not share the same situation with what is being learned.

  Is formalized instructional learning where the

time/geographic situation constrains learning by not offering in-person contact between student and instructor.

Distance learning:

Distance education:

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Discuss the definitions you found with your team

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Clarify the definitions using the information you found in Wikipedia and other sites.

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?Distance education is defined as Distance education is an approach that focuses in delivering teaching to students who are not physically present in a classroom.

Defining Distance Education

Distance education or distance learning?

Add your own point of view here we think it is both, it depend in the setting. Distance education is more general. It require more planning and support. In case of our university it is distance education while if the learner open the net and learn a new topic it is distance learning.

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology (old technology)the earliest version of distance education, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe (Great Britain, France, Germany), and the United States, and spread swiftly.

cont,

Until 1910, the medium of mail was the dominant delivery system, but new technologies, such as the lantern slide and motion picture, emerged to provide additional, visually-based options for correspondence study

cont, The most promising new technology that

emerged between 1910 and 1920 was instructional radio.

Cont,

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, cable and satellite television came into use. The advent of the Internet and digital applications in the 1990s, combined with the changing demographics of the distance education learner, added a whole new dimension to distance education. These new technologies bring educational opportunity to the non-traditional student, and the lure of economic prosperity to higher educational institutions.

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology (modern technology)

Videoconferencing :

Videoconferencing is the conduct of a videoconference (also known as a video conference or video-teleconference) by a set of telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to communicate by simultaneous two-way video and audio transmissions. It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of groupware.

Fax machine : is the telephonic transmission of

scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system

Defining Distance Education

Time for Presentation

Defining Distance Education

In conclusion, many key features characterize distance education:

1. The separation of teacher and learner;

2. The separation among learners;

3. The use of one medium to deliver instruction; and

4. The use of a communication channel to facilitate interaction and support learners.