Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies Department

www.alaasadik.netalaasadik@squ.edu.om

Completed by-Murtadha Mohammed AlAjmi (u06869)-Hussain Ali ALAjmi (u068710)

Lecture One Defining

Distance Education

Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Interactive Presentation

What is distance education or distance learning?

Use to search for: distance education:

NOTE: The importance of defining the meaning of distance education is that it may provide a good starting point to recognise its elements.

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?Use to find more info about distance education and 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".

Defining Distance Education

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

It clear from the definition that the distance education Describes instruction and

learning that occur when the

instructor and learner do not

physically meet in the same

place or at the same time

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology.The history of distance education could be

tracked back to the early 1700s in the form

of correspondence education, but technology

-based distance education might be best linked

to the introduction of audiovisual devices into

the schools in the early 1900s. 

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technologySynchronous technologies:

Telephone , Videoconferencing Web Conferencing ,Audio

conferencing,Internet chat.

Asynchronous technologies:

Audiocassette, E-mail ,Message

Board Forums ,Print Materials,

Voice Mail/fax Videocassette

Broadcast video, Radio, CD-ROM

Defining Distance Education

Distance learning allow people to learn any time any where and any thing

Questions & Discussions

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