Distance Learning

Paper Summary:

This paper begins with a brief look at correspondence schools, the prototype of distance learning, and then describes what distance learning has become today. The paper also looks at some of the adjustments in teaching policies and procedures required by distance learning, as well as its advantages and disadvantages.

Regional Development
Distance Learning versus Virtual or Traditional Education
Theories and Philosophies
Systems
Design Criteria
Methods and Strategies
E-Learning and its Benefits
Distance Learning and Realities
Definition of Terms

From the Paper:

"Its earliest prototype was the international correspondence in the 19th century. In the 1970s, it reshaped into open universities, later into the 1980's wave of technological products, such as the videotape, broadcast, satellite and cable. In the 1990s, Brey (as qtd in Burke) predicted that distance education programs would phenomenally grow that decade to an extent that most of the people the US would be served by it at the minimal ratio of 1:1, mostly in the community colleges. Right enough by 1994, 80% of community colleges in the US began offering some form of distance education program and the figure went up further in the rest of the decade."

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