Reporter: Ms. Beverly P.

Soriano
MAIT-1 year student
 DISTANCE EDUCATION

- is the education of students who may not

always be physically present at a school.
- any formal approach to learning in which a
majority of the instruction occurs while educator
and learner are at a distance from one another.
- is a field of education that focuses
on the pedagogy, technology, and
instructional systems design that is
effectively incorporated in
delivering education to students who
are not physically “on site” to
receive their education.
 1840
Sir Isaac Pitman
launches
correspondence courses
teaching with his revolutionary
short hand system

1858
The University of
London was the first
university to offer
distance learning
degrees
 1892
William Rainey
1873 Harper encouraged
The society to correspondence courses
encourage studies at to further promote
home is founded – the first education
correspondence school
in US

1911
The university of 1946
Queensland helps The University of
DISTANCE EDUCATION South Africa
take off in Australia establishes a
nationwide Distance
Education Program.
 1969 Harold Wilson’s
Labour Government founds
1970 the open university in 1969.
It became the 1st institution
Athabasca
to deliver only distance learning,
University
primarily using radio and
(Canada’s Open television broadcast to deliver
university) was content.
founded.

1972 1974
The Open University
inspired the creation of FernUniversität
Spain's National in Hagen
University of Distance (Germany's
Education. open university)
was founded.
 There now many similar institutions
around the world, often with the name
"Open University“.
* Synchronous learning
* Asynchronous learning
* Synchronous learning
* In synchronous learning, all
participants are "present" at the
same time. In this regard, it
resembles traditional classroom
teaching methods despite the
participants being located
remotely. It requires a timetable
to be organized.
* Synchronous learning
examples of synchronous
technology:
•Web conferencing
•videoconferencing
•educational television
•instructional television
•Telerobotics devices
* Synchronous learning
* Asynchronous learning
In asynchronous learning, participants
access course materials flexibly on their
own schedules. Students are not required
to be together at the same time. Mail
correspondence, which is the oldest form
of distance education, is an asynchronous
delivery technology, as are message
board forums, e-mail, video and audio
recordings, print materials, voicemail,
and fax.
The two methods can be combined.
This type of mixed distance and
campus based education has recently
come to be called "blending learning"
or less often "hybrid learning". Many
open universities uses a blend of
technologies and a blend of learning
modalities
(face-to-face, distance, and hybrid) all
under the rubric of "distance learning".
Distance learning can also use:
•Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI),
•Interactive Audio Instruction (IAI),
•Online Virtual Worlds,
•Digital Games,
•Webinars, and
•Webcasts,
Paced and Self Paced Models
Paced delivery is currently the most
common mode of distance education
delivery. Alternatively, some
institutions offer self-paced
programs that allow for continuous
enrollment and the length of time to
complete the course is set by the
learner's time, skill and commitment
levels.
Paced and Self Paced Models

Self-paced courses maximize

student freedom, as not only can
students commence studies on
any date, but they can complete a
course in as little time as a few
weeks or up to a year or longer.
Kaplan and Haenlein classify Distance Education
into four groups along the dimensions Time
Dependency and Number of Participants:
1. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
2. SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses):
3. SMOCs (Synchronous Massive Online Courses)
4. SSOCs (Synchronous Private Online Courses)
Online course that
only offers a limited
number of places and
therefore requires
some form of formal
enrollment.
3. SMOCs (Synchronous Massive Online
Courses):

Open-access online course that allows for

unlimited participation but requires students to be
"present" at the same time (synchronously);
4. SSOCs (Synchronous Private Online
Courses):

Online course that only offers a limited

number of places and requires students to be
"present" at the same time (synchronously).