Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies Department

www.alaasadik.netalaasadik@squ.edu.om

Completed by:

- Azeer Jamal AL_Zadjali 82920

- Ahmed Hamdan Al-Jahwari 68693

Lecture One Defining

Distance Education

Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

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What is distance education or distance learning?

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Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

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Defining Distance Education

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

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Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Clarify the definitions using

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Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Distance education is defined as 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".

Defining Distance Education

Distance education or distance learning?

Distance Education is the correct term as distance learning could only be a part of distance education and distance education include well-organized system however distance learning could be NOT organized and have no frame work (any one can learn at distance if he needs).

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology** Correspondence education, the earliest version of distance education, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in Europe.

** Printed materials sent through the mail were

the main way of communication, teaching,

and learning.

** Visual instruction, including lantern slides and motion

pictures was added to the repertory of many

extension

units in the period of 1910-1920

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology** Microcomputers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web are shaping the current generation of distance learning, and virtual reality, artificial intelligence.**Today, each region has developed its own form of distance education in accordance with local resources,

target audience, and philosophy of the

organizations which provide the

instruction.

Development in Definition of Distance Education

In the past the term Distance education was referring to knowledge transported to learner in different ways however the term recently developed and now it refer to more systematic learning environment where student can learn from a distance

and can also communicate with the instructor in some situation

Defining Distance Education

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