concepts of distance education "unit 2, activity 1"

DISTANCE LEARNING DEFINITIONS

1 "The acquisition of knowledge and skills through mediated information and instruction, encompassing all technologies and other forms of learning at a distance."

USDLA

2 “Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well as special organizational and administrative arrangements"

by Greg Kearsley (1996)

3 “The process of extending learning, or delivering instructional resource-sharing opportunities, to locations away from a classroom, building or site, to another classroom, building or site by using video, audio, computer, multimedia communications, or some combination of these with other traditional delivery methods." The ITC definition http://www.uwex.edu/disted/definition.cfm