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Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa Sadik Mi Al-Nassri Siham Al-Omairi (67157)Instructional & Learning Technologies Department

[email protected]

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Lecture One Defining

Distance Education

Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

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What is distance education or distance learning?

Use to search for: define: distance education

Education that takes place when the instructor

and student are separated by space and/or time.

Defining Distance Education

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Use to find more info about distance education and distance learning

Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to

students who are not physically "on site".


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What is distance education or distance learning?Discuss the definitions you found with your team.Education that takes place when the instructor and student are separated by space and/or time. Formal learning in which the student and the instructor are not in the same place at the same time

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Clarify the definitions using

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Wikipedia and other sites.

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Distance education is defined as the type of education in which the students and instructor are separated from each other by space and time.

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Distance education or distance learning?

Add your opinion here … Distant Education because education

term more general and comprehensive than learning and it includes both instructor and learners while distance leaning focuses more on learners and how to learn rather than instructors.

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Defining Distance EducationHistory of distance education and technology

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History of distance education and technology

The first version of distance education, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe, the United States, and spread swiftly.

In 1873, Anna Ticknow established a society that presented educational opportunities to women of all classes to study at home but it didn’t succeed.

Thomas J. Foster started home-study courses in mine safety in the 1880s, as well. These courses grew to become the International Correspondence School.

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Cod’: History of distance education and technology

instructional radio appears between 1910 and 1920. But this technology failed to attract a large audience, and by 1940, only one college-level credit course was still offered through instructional radio. then the instructional radio was developed to instructional television in the mid-20th century

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, cable and satellite television came into use.

the Internet and digital applications in the 1990s

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About 3.2 million U.S. students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2005 term.

In 2006 more than 96 percent of the largest colleges and universities in the United States offered online courses.

In 2007, In Ontario, Canada the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities established the elearnnetwork.ca to provide access to students in small and rural communities.

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Defining Distance EducationHistory of distance education and technology

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Instructional radio appears between 1910 and 1920. But this technology failed to attract a large audience, and by 1940, only one college-level credit course was still offered through instructional radio. then the instructional radio was developed to instructional television in the mid-20th century

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, cable and satellite television came into use.

the Internet and digital applications in the 1990s

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Reference

oregonone.org/glossary.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_learning. http://www.seniornet.org/edu/art/history.html http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Spring01/deClair/

history.html

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