FOUNDATIONS OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONRaheen Brooks

CHEMISTRY AT A DISTANCE

Chemistry is a hands-on, laboratory-based course that many consider one of the most rigorous in the average high school curriculum

Many students dread taking chemistry In many small communities areas there is only

one chemistry teacher.

DISTANCE EDUCATION TODAY AND TOMORROW

It has became a main topic in education Concept of distance education is exciting It is the mainstream form of education 15% (460,000) Students of the Midwestern states are

enrolled in at least one online class

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION IN CASE YOU WONDER

Training in effective instructional strategies is critical Distance education courses should be carefully Adequate support systems must be in place to provide

the distant learner Visualization of ideas and concepts is critical

WHAT IS DISTANCE EDUCATION

Distance education or distance learning is a mode of delivering education and instruction, often on an individual basis, to students who are physical present in a traditional setting such as a classroom. Distance learning provides “access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both”.

FACTS ABOUT DISTANCE EDUCATION Eminent historian Frederick Jackson Turner ran the

correspondence program of the University of Wisconsin in the late 1800s.

Telemedicine refers to medicine at distance, and telelaw refers to law at a distance

Research on the effectiveness of distance education clearly shows that students who learn at distance do not learn any worse, or any better, than traditional students.

MEDIA IN EDUCATION

TELEMEDICINE

Telemedicine is defined as medicine at a distance Separation or distance between individuals and/or resources Use of communications technologies Interaction between individuals and/or resources Medical or health care

SUMMARY Fundamental characteristics of distance education is the separation

of the student and the teacher Educators are using technology to increase access of the distance

learner to the local classroom Distance education is a dramatic idea It is designed to be a successful and mainstream approach It is being used in telecommunications technologies in an exciting

emerging field

CONCLUSION