Apt 502 distance tech handouts study guides and visuals
- 1. Distance Education Handouts, Study Guides, and Visuals Betty Howard 1
- 2. Definition • What is Distance Education? – Within a context of rapid technological change and shifting market conditions, the American education system is challenged with providing increased educational opportunities without increased budgets. – Many educational institutions are answering this challenge by developing distance education programs. At its most basic level, distance education takes place when a teacher and student(s) are separated by physical distance. 2
- 3. Distance Education • Significant Objectives of Distance Education – Provide an effective alternative path to wider opportunities in education – Provide an efficient and less expensive education – Provide education facilities to all qualified and willing persons – Provide opportunities of academic pursuits to educated citizens willing to improve their standard of knowledge – Provide education facilities to as a life-long activity 3
- 4. Alternative Path • Provide education facilities to those individuals who look upon education as a life-long activity: – There are different categories of potential learners. • There are some who never been able to enter into any institution of higher learning. • Some need additional knowledge in a particular discipline. • Others need refresher courses to cope with the latest development in their perfection. • For all of the above there is need for distance learning or correspondence education. 4
- 5. Efficiency • Provide an efficient and less expensive education • Provision of universal schooling is beyond the means of our country. • Increasing population and limited resources is the predicament of our educational planners. • It is difficult to divert huge sums of money in a developing economy to match the required level of expansion for traditional schooling. • Distance education is the only practical alternative. 5
- 6. Facilities Provide education facilities to all qualified and willing persons: – The objective of correspondence courses is to provide education facilities to all qualified and willing persons who are unable to join regular university and other courses due to various reasons. – There is an incessant search for an alternative system and that system is distance education 6
- 7. Extended Academic Persuits • Provide opportunities of academic pursuits to educated citizens willing to improve their standard of knowledge: • There are many learner who cannot afford to join the face- to-face system of education due to personal and professional responsibilities. • Some provisions have are made through distance education. • The objective is to provide opportunities to improve the standard of knowledge and learning through continuing education while in employment. 7
- 8. Life Long learning • Provide education facilities to as a life-long activity – Distance learning system must be well-supported with instructional materials, and suitable radio and television programs in different areas of study. – Correspondence education or distance learning is becoming popular and being accepted as an alternative and economical approach to our formal education system. 8
- 10. Study Guide Purpose • To organize lecture notes and text book material so that you can increase your comprehension and memory of large amounts of information. • Prepare study guides that are visual is even more effective, as the visual organization helps you see related concepts and make meaningful connections with the material, 10
- 11. Visual Literacy • The ability to interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in the form of an image, extending the meaning of literacy, which signifies interpretation of a written or printed text. 11
- 12. Summary / Questions / Answers – Provide an effective alternative path to wider opportunities in education – Provide an efficient and less expensive education – Provide education facilities to all qualified and willing persons – Provide opportunities of academic pursuits to educated citizens willing to improve their standard of knowledge – Provide education facilities to as a life-long activity 12
- 13. References • http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/education/ 5-significant-objectives-of-distance- education/45197/ • https://distance.fsu.edu/tags/objectives • https://distance.fsu.edu/tags/objectives • http://fcit.usf.edu/distance/chap10.htm 13