Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) 2024Final.pptx
Distance learning
1. Distance Education
and the Internet
TECH4101
Dr. Alaa Sadik
Instructional & Learning Technologies Department
www.alaasadik.net
alaasadik@squ.edu.om
Complete by
-Amna Al-abri (83133)
-Aida Al-Salmi. (83267)
3. What is distance education or distance learning?
Use to search for:
define:distance education
Distance education is defined as formal approach that focuses on the
technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education
to students who are not physically "on site".
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
4. What is distance education or distance
learning?
Use to find more info about distance
education and distance learning
Defining Distance Education
6. Defining Distance Education
What is distance education or distance
learning?
Clarify the definitions using
the information you found in
Wikipedia and other sites.
8. Defining Distance Education
Distance education or distance learning?
Distance education because it is a formal education
system happened at a distance and it is related to an
institute or organization.
But distance learning is un formal and everybody can
learn at a distance.
9. 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
Print , is a foundational element of distance
education programs and the basis from which
all other delivery systems have evolved.
Various print formats are available including:
textbooks, study guides, workbooks, course
syllabi, and case studies.
10. Defining Distance Education
History of distance education and
technology
Nowadays they use new technologies
such as :
electronic mail, fax,
real-time computer conferencing,
and World-Wide Web applications, .
11. Defining Distance Education
PAST: A broad term describing an
instructional situation where
teachers and students are
physically separated. Historically
this encompassed correspondence
courses and other paper-based
approaches. They emphasize on
the delivery of the content only.
12. Defining Distance Education
PRESENT: The process by which
technology is used for education in
ways where the student does not
have to physically be in the place
where the teaching is taking place.
Access to the instructor is gained
through technology such as the
Internet, interactive
videoconferencing and satellite.They
emphasize on the new technology to
deliver the content.
