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This document discusses distance education and technology. It defines distance education as institution-based formal education where the learning group is separated and interactive telecommunications are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors. Distance education has been applied using various media like print and telecommunications. It is effective when carefully designed and developed with support systems, interaction, and assessment related to learning outcomes. The keys to successful distance education are instructional design and delivery, not geography.
Distance technologies slideshare
- 1. BY: Elboni C. Todd
- 2. Distance Technology The most important question at hand is what is distance education? Distance has multiple meanings such as geographical distance, time distance and possibly even intellectual distance. Distance education has been applied to a variety of programs serving numerous audiences via a wide variety of media, some can use print while many uses telecommunications. Combinations of time and place result in four approaches to education: same-time, same-place education(ST-SP); different-time, same-place education(DT-SP); same-time, different –place education(ST-DP); and different-time, different –different place education(DT-DP)
- 3. Distance Technology Distance education has become a major topic in education because it is exciting. There are conflicting pressures on distance professors because students prefer to learn in a classroom setting rather than online but demand to be permitted to learn at a distance. According to “Teaching and Learning at a Distance”, distance education is defined as institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources, and instructors(Schlosser&Simonson,2009,p.1
- 4. Distance Technology Distance education is very effective, it is very clear that instruction is delivered to distant learners and that the outcomes are successful. It is not the fact that instruction is delivered in a traditional, face to face environment or at a distance that predicts learning it is very clear from research literature that distance education works(Simonson,2002) Some ways to know that it is effective is training in effective instructional strategies is critical for teachers of distant learners; it should be carefully designed and developed before instruction begins; visualization of ideas and concepts, adequate support systems must be in place, interaction between the instructor and the student and last but least assessment should be designed to relate to the specific learning outcomes.
- 5. Distance Distance education can be as effective as any other category of instruction which is learning occurs and knowledge is retained. The keys to successful distance education are in the design , development, and delivery of instruction and are not related to geography or time.
- 6. FACTS Here are some facts about the field of distance education: IP stands for Internet Protocol, the rules used to send information over the Internet. The internet is a packet-switched network, meaning that messages are divided into packets that are disassembled and then sent to the distant site where the packets are reassembled into the complete message. Satellites used for distance education orbit approximately 23,000 miles about the equator at an orbiting speed that matches the rotation of the earth.
- 7. FACTS Sustaining technology or innovation improves product performance of established products and gives users something more or better that they value(Teets,2002) In education, a sustaining technology might be a Smartboard, which in most applications is a way to present information dynamically and efficiently. Distance education is aimed at students (older, working and remotely located learners.
- 8. Classroom Setting vs. Online
- 9. TECHNOLOGY Educators have been trained in special month-long distance teaching and learning academies, and teachers and university faculties have designed curriculum materials, including entire courses. In addition to economics and politics, the growth and impact of distance education is directly linked to the availability of new technologies. Distance education is a dramatic idea. It may change, even restructure, education, but only if it is possible to make the experience of the distant learner as complete satisfying and acceptable as the experience of the local learner.
- 10. Distance Technologies If distance education is to be a successful and mainstream approach, then it is imperative that distance education systems be designed to permit equivalent learning experiences for distant and local students. Distance education using telecommunications technologies is an exciting emerging field. Distance education specialist should strive to understand technology and technological approaches that make the experiences of distant and local learners positive and equivalent.
- 11. REFERENCES Teaching and Learning at a Distance “Foundations of Distance Education” Fifth Edition Michael Simonson, Sharon Smaldino, Michael Albright, Susan Zvacek