2. Content
● Key stages of distance education
● System of distance education
● Practical experience of distance education
● The future of distance education
3. What distance education is
● A diverse form of education, e.g. E-mail, the
Internet, post, television etc.
http://www.distancelearningnet.com/what-is-distance-learning/
● NOT classroom teaching – without
immediate response, face expression, body
language
● Advantageous – students can study at home
at times convenient for them
4. History
● It started in 1873 by Ann Ticknor
● The aim – to facilitate studies for
women and people of all classes
http://www.seniornet.org/edu/art/history.html
● There were time of struggle and times
of favour
● Changing times, changing tools
5. Designing distance educational
course
● Three main models: classroom-orientated
product-orientated
system-orientated
● Main components: analysis
design
implementation
evaluation
good project management
7. Communication technologies
● Only some computer technologies are
suitable for distance education
● Select technology according to:
- age of students,
- size of the group,
- content of the course,
- difficulty of the software etc.
http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/publicat/peraya-papers/icrem/india07.html
8. Educational systems
● Like a body - each part is important
● Important parts of educational systems
are:
- strong and capable management
- content of the course
- program design
- delivery of the study materials
- learning environment
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=aglecfacpub
9. Learners and learning
● Special abilities needed by distance
students
● Needed abilities:
- good organisation
- discipline
- good at setting goals and deadlines
- study alone
- computer abilities
11. Community developement
● Importance of a study community:
- improvement of learning
- deeper understanding
- aplication of the knowledge
- deeper sense of comittment
- reduction of teachers´ workload
http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/79/152
12. Moderating
● The tasks of a moderator:
- opening discussions
- setting rules of procedures
- managing forums
- prompting participants
- assessing
- summarising discussions
www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2004/proceedings/individual_papers/thomas_et_al.htm
13. Teaching and teaching roles
● An online teacher has different role to a
classroom teacher.
● Necessary to:
- Create a friendly social environment
- Make students comfortable with the
system and the software which are used
- Encourage participation of students
- Be flexible
- Avoid „authoritative attitude“
http://www.achva.ac.il/sites/default/files/achvafiles/maof_book/8/2002_2.pdf
14. Assessment
● Important for teachers and students
● Shows what has been achieved
Effective assessment should combine
various kinds of assessment:
- Self-assessment
- Collaborative assessment
- Teammate assessment
- Grading rubrics
http://www.pgie.ufrgs.br/webfolioead/artigo1.html
16. Challenging changes
● less government money for education
● cheaper computer technology
● increased financial considerations
http://edcetera.rafter.com/the-future-of-distance-learning-why-77-of-universities-already-offer-online-courses/
17. Conclusion
● Distance education has changed and is still changing
● We need to choose the most suitable technology
according each group of students and educational
content
● Certain qualities are needed for distance education
students, e.g. discipline, planning, good organising
etc.
● Learners community helps to gain deeper
understanding, better learning and practical
application of gained knowledge
● Distance education might be a very important way
forward in the future
