Distance Education

Distance Education

using ICT

What is Distance Learning?

Distance education, also called distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at a school. The main elements of Distance Learning include physical separation of teachers and students during instruction and the use of various technologies to facilitate student-teacher and student-student communication.

Distance learning traditionally has focused on nontraditional students, such as full-time workers, military personnel, and nonresidents or individuals in remote regions who are unable to attend classroom lectures.

Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via mail. Today, it usually involves online education. Online educational tools allow students and instructors to interact synchronously or asynchronously and give endless training opportunities with distance learning courses or hybrid courses.

A distance learning program can be completely distance learning, or a combination of distance learning and traditional classroom instruction (called hybrid or blended).

What are the types of Distance Learning?

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What are the goals of Distance Learning?

• Overcomes barriers of place

• Overcomes barriers of time

• Overcomes barriers of learning styles

• Overcomes barriers of physical and mental handicaps

• Build additional skills

• Advance toward a degree more quickly.

• There is also a cost avoidance, or cost saving, factor

What are the technologies used in Distance Learning

• Audio Conference

• Multimedia

• Online

• Print

• Telecourse/Datacast

• Video conference

• Web conference

Poll

which tool can be used for distance education

• . Radio

• .Computer networks

• .Cellular phones

• .Television

How is ICT useful in distance education?

With the idea of widening access to education, the educational policy of the country has emphasized the promotion of use of ICT in its distance education programs. 

ICT plays a significant role in distance education. It meets the requirements and expectations of the learners on a large scale which otherwise would not be possible using any traditional institutional system due to its limited resources.

ICT has various proven tools and technologies to meet the requirements of a learner at various phases of the learning cycle. For example: the admission phase, the learning phase, the evaluation phase and finally the certification phase as a service. 

ICT has proved to be useful in distance education in the following ways:

• It makes collaborative learning possible

• Makes learning possible anywhere and everywhere.

• ICT in the form of radio, television broadcast, video cassettes and other

• ICT which involves different use of media gives both variety and the chance of accommodating different learning styles.

• ICT enables the teachers as well as the students to access a wide array of education resources

Multiple Choice

In an online distance education setup, learners interact with the teacher in real-time through video/audio conferencing or live chats to follow instructions, lectures, or tasks. This refers to ___.

• asynchronous instruction

• synchronous instruction

• blended learning

• game-based learnning

What are the advantages of Distance Learning?

• Energy and time of the students can be saved

• Flexibility

• Work time

• Less interruption

• In distance learning, students can save money on travelling and paying the faculty

• design more academically proven and high-quality curriculum

• learning experience for all type of students

What are the disadvantages of Distance Learning?

• No Physical Interaction

• Less Motivational

• Distance Learning Don’t Help In Developing Oral Skills And Social Interactions

• Difficult To Choose A Quality Educational Program

• Important To Have Good Time Management Skills

• Requirement of sound technical skills

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Conclusion -

ICTs incorporate 3 I‟s in distance education

Interested Learning, Increased Access, and Improved Outcomes.

These 3 are important factors for Effective learning. An effective combination of media and technology is needed for achieving the best of ICTs usage in the open and distance learning system.