This is the first presentation.

1. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Dr. Alaa Sadik
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
www.alaasadik.net
alaasadik@squ.edu.om

2. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Lecture One (Week 2)
Defining
Distance Education
Done by: Shiekha AL-Rashdi
ID:90604
Interactive Presentation

3. Defining Distance Education
Background:
The Industrial Revolution in the 19th century →
Developments in various fields of technology →
Offered new solutions for delivering instruction →
Learners’ interests were enhanced →
Increase in the subject areas offered by distance
education →
Became one of the formal means of education.

4. 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

5. Holmberg in his book entitled Growth and Structure
of Distance Education is more descriptive:
Distance education includes the various forms of
study at all levels which are not under the continuous
immediate supervision of tutors present with their
students in lecture rooms or on the same premises, but
which, nevertheless, benefit from the planning,
guidance and tuition of a tutorial organization.

6. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or
distance learning?
Use Wikipedia to find more info about
distance education and distance learning

7. distance learning is improved capabilities
in knowledge and/or behaviors as a result of mediated
experiences that are constrained
by time and/or distance such that the learner does not share
the same situation with what
Distance education is formalized instructional learning
where the time/geographic situation constrains learning by
not affording in person contact between student and
instructor. In person education is formalized instructional
learning where the time/geographic situation constrains
learning by requiring synchronous person-to-person
interaction.
Resource-Article: Defining Distance Learning and Distance
Education, Frederick B. King, Michael F. Young, Kelly Drivere-
Richmond, P. G. Schrader,The University of Connecticut , Neag
School of Education

8. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Clarify the definitions using the information you found in Wikipedia and
other sites.
Distance learning, sometimes called e-learning, is a formalized teaching
and learning system specifically designed to be carried out remotely by
using electronic communication.
But in Wikipedia:
is a field of education that focuses on teaching methods and technology
with the aim of delivering teaching, often on an individual basis, to
students who are not physically present in a traditional educational setting
such as a classroom.

9. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance learning?
Distance education is defined as formalized instructional learning where the
time/geographic situation constrains learning by not affording in person
contact between student and instructor. In person education is formalized
instructional learning where the time/geographic situation constrains
learning by requiring synchronous person-to-person interaction..

10. Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning? In my
opinion:
It is distance education because it refers to a
systematic approach involving the distance
learning environment, educators and separated
learners.

11. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology (old technology)
Distance education dates to at least as early as 1728, when "an advertisement
in the Boston Gazette... [named] 'Caleb Phillips, Teacher of the new method
of Short Hand" was seeking students for lessons to be sent weekly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education

12. Example of old technology used in
DE
Old
Printer
Post
mail

13. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and technology (modern technology)
Modern distance education initially relied on the development of postal
services in the 19th century and has been practised at least since Isaac Pitman
taught shorthand in Great Britain via correspondence in the 1840s.[5] The
University of London claims to be the first university to offer distance
learning degrees, establishing its External Programme in 1858.

14. This program is now known as the University of London International
Programs and includes Postgraduate, Undergraduate and Diploma degrees
created by colleges such as the London School of Economics, Royal
Holloway and Goldsmiths.[6] In the United States William Rainey Harper,
first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of
extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges
of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the
concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an
idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.[7] In Australia, the
University of Queensland established its Department of Correspondence
Studies in 1911.[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education

15. Example of modern technology used
in DE
Video
conferencing
Audio
Conferencin
g

16. Defining Distance Education
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Presentation

17. 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.

18. The End
Questions & Discussions