Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Dr. Alaa SadikInstructional & Learning Technologies Department

www.alaasadik.netalaasadik@squ.edu.om

Amal AL-Balushi (66755)

Hiba AL-Julandani (57549)

Sara AL-Zahili (63466)

Lecture One Defining

Distance Education

Distance Education and the Internet TECH4101

Interactive Presentation

What is distance education or distance learning?

Use to search for: define: distance education

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Use to find more info about distance education and distance learning

Defining Distance Education

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Discuss the definitions

you found with your team

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning?

Clarify the definitions using

the information you found in

Wikipedia and other sites.

Defining Distance Education

What is distance education or distance learning? Distance education is defined as 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 and the same time.

Resource: http://www.google.com.om/search?hl=ar&q=define%3Adistance+educati

on&meta=

Defining Distance Education

Distance education or distance learning? Distance education because what is the role of the teacher if the learner

learns by himself!!!

If we say distance learning it seems that we cancel the role of the

teacher.

Also, through the education the learning happens. So, education is the

broadband.

Defining Distance Education

History of distance education and technology DE has been developed through 5 generations:

Correspondence generation (Print).

Multimedia Generation (Videotape, audiotape, CDs..etc).

Telelearning Generation (Audioconferencing, videoconferencing,

broadcasting)

Flexible Learning generation (internet, network)

Intelligent flexible learning generation.

Resource: http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/hes/hes40/hes40.pdf

Defining Distance Education

Resource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_education

History of distance education and technology DE started in 1728. The University of London was the first university

to offer DL degree.

In 2006 the Sloan Consortium reported that more than 96 percent of the

largest colleges and universities in the United States offered online

courses and that almost 3.2 million U.S. students were taking at least

one online course during the fall 2005 term.

Defining Distance Education

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