Important tips in Distance Education

Distance Education

 Are you looking to help those who are unable to go to school due to a physical disability or are you a student who is unable to go to school? You should look into distance education or distance learning.

What is distance education though? Distance education is a field of education that uses technology and instructional systems to educate students who are not physically able to receive their education. Instead of the student who is unable to attend a class either buys the video of a teacher teaching a subject or, more popular today, the student watches the teacher over a webcam.

Now that you know what distance education is, when did it start?

The oldest university to use distance education would have to be the University of South Africa which has been offering distance education since 1946. It has been available since the 1840s in Great Britain though.

The early forms of distance education would use a commercial correspondence to deliver the piece of education to the student. Many colleges in America use distance education today, although any student can receive it, not just the disabled. Many students have at least one internet class a semester which is where you stay at your house and watch the teacher teach over a live webcam feed.

If you are going to do distance education it is important for you to know the options you have on having it delivered to you. The most obvious choice is for you to do what is called virtual classrooms which is where you watch the lesson on your laptop over a live webcam feed. You can also order DVDs and VHS tapes or just order books or other written print and read them.

There is a difference between open learning and distance learning, but what is it? Open learning is when the student is allowed to choose the time and place he/she wants to learn. Distance learning is when the student and teacher are unable to meet at the same time. This is important because not all open learning schools use distance learning and not all schools that use distance education are open learning schools.

Distance education is definitely on the rise as many more schools are beginning to use virtual classrooms and provide more options for the disabled and those who are unable to attend classes. If you are thinking about becoming a distance education teacher you should consider it. You will be able to choose the time you want to record a lesson and just send it to your students to watch at the time they want.

Distance education is a great thing because it allows many students who were originally unable to attend school to do so and it also allows teachers the chance to teach more students then they would originally be able to teach.

Why is My Choice - Distance Education

So, what's better than full-time distance learning? Let's examine this 

Distance learning has its niche optimum application, which must be well understood. In this niche, there are certain limits. Within these boundaries, the appropriateness of the use of distance learning - is not in doubt, and its efficiency and performance - is much higher than full-time.

("Efficiency" - the ratio of the results to the effort. "Effectiveness" - the ability to produce results.)

Difficult to teach remotely, for example, swimming, driving, or driving down the nails, but a huge number of skills is best just to teach remotely.

Development of distance learning technologies began with the development of computer technology, and communications. Modern technology allows the teacher and student to freely communicate without personal meetings and visits. Such communication is carried out, as in the "on-line" (with the simultaneous presence of both the Internet), and "off-line" (through correspondence). Distance learning much in terms of time and effort, and money to the students. This is useful both for students and for teachers. This improves the efficiency of training.

It is a harmonious combination of modern technology and the efforts of the teacher - provides a significant increase in the efficiency of learning. Therefore, people who are trained on e-learning programs (remotely) showed better results achieved in the lives of more than are being trained in the classroom full-time.

Comparison of distance education with full-time for each of the options, allows you to get a complete picture of all the features and benefits of e-learning:

1.UDOBSTVO TRAINING

Classroom Learning:

Often people are not able to select the desired program of study of their full-time options, since they do not exist, or they do not fit on the place, time, schedule, cost, quality.

Realizing that education in a particular case is not available to the student, many no longer even find ways of learning, while the speed of technology development requires continuous learning throughout their lives.

Moreover, continuing education should be convenient, efficient and economical.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Many people (especially burdened by work and family commitments) can not sit at a desk every day for several hours a day in a certain place on a tight schedule. Distance learning gives everyone the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities on the job, home, family, without breaking their plots and plans.

Distance learning is convenient, economical, efficient, effective. Full-time - quite expensive.

2.EKONOMICHNOST

Classroom Learning:

Full-time training requires travel. Transportation costs often exceed the cost of the training. The time spent on the road, often exceeds the duration of the training. When you want to add to that the price at the location of the school, such training is too wasteful exercise. Time is no less valuable asset than money. Time - capital that is not possible, nor save for the future, not buy. You can either use a rational or irrational. The group meeting in the classroom on a tight schedule - this is inefficient use of time, money, effort.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Savings in distance learning is how to save money and to save time, energy and nerves. Learning to remotely person is free from traffic stress, and road fatigue. Cost of distance learning is less full-time in two or more (up to ten), and the rate of training - is much higher.

Modern technologies make it possible to grade and quality control of training, even better than the full-time training.

3.ORIENTATSIYA on interest Educational

Classroom Learning:

Man forced to learn to set over the rigid schedule, often goes to a state of fatigue, when not to in order to learn where the information is not perceived (after work, evening, etc.), and on schedule, when it is not perceived ( people can effectively learn a half-hour, but not half a day).

The full-time teaching unavoidable absences, and the irreplaceable loss of important knowledge units. Miss one or more classes, such as illness, a student misses an important and necessary key information, and hopelessly behind. Often such irreparable gap in the future, and is a cause for termination of training.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Distance learning - is training to your home, at your workplace. This training, a person can, ready and able to learn, but not when scheduled lecture. And people learn as much time as assimilates information. It is believed that a person can learn new knowledge is not more than an hour or two a day.

E-learning is much more fun learning in the classroom. Such training provides freedom of movement and activity, flexibility training schedule, cultivate responsible for their decisions and actions, as well as - of inactivity. A student who took a break from training, do not miss any of the curriculum, and that's very important - will be consistently solid knowledge - knowledge gaps in distance learning - does not happen. Schedule, the time and duration of classes each sets itself.

4. CONTROL STUDY

Classroom Learning:

When teaching a group in the audience, it is often impossible to control the understanding of the material. Control takes a lot of time, so for the sake of presentation, its limit. It is very difficult to provide quality control of each group in the training in the classroom. Personal communication is not possible in the training group. When training group, the rate of training set underachiever. Gifted with frankly bored. Laggards - have not kept pace.

With distance learning, his pace lessons and training schedule - set himself a student.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Computer is able to record and monitor impartially training in many ways, and greatly help the teacher in control.

Teacher more time talking each student. This is very important for training - each student is important to have feedback, and to know that he understands the situation set out, and correctly apply the knowledge obtained. Remotely possible to do all this. The full-time training on it just do not have time and opportunity.

5. ACTIVITY IN EDUCATION

Classroom Learning:

When training is very important activity of students. The student acquires knowledge only when it is active in the learning process. Often difficult to achieve in the classroom activity of students in a group, because people do not want to expose their knowledge or, even more so - to publicly display their ignorance, as did not want to publicly make mistakes, especially when learning to adults.

Low efficiency of group learning is based on expectations that they can hide behind the backs of others.

The duration of full-time training is always limited in time, and the teacher most of the time allocated busy presentation. Therefore, the full-time training, the student is not able to ask the teacher any questions, and get answers. With distance learning, learning to communicate with the teacher.

ELearning in additional professional education

E-learning

Today the term "e-learning" is more commonly used than "distance learning." The reason is that, under the e-learning we mean a variety of forms of education through computer technology and a variety of advanced communications and telecommunications. And they can be used, including, in the university, not implying mandatory development of educational material at a distance and in complete isolation from the traditional educational process.

The main niche of e-learning in the West - is the provision of educational services to various categories of the adult population. There are many educational institutions that specialize in e-learning. For example, in the United States was one of these "online universities" include: WGU, Capella, Walden, University of Phoenix, Grand Canyon University, Kaplan, Devry. Most of them are there for more than 20 years, starting as a classical institution distant (education), gradually moving most of their educational process in the Internet.

Foreign experience shows that comprehensive e-learning program - a good tool for the realization of the idea of ​​continuing education, that is, learning throughout life, allows professionals maintain their professional tone, improve skills or be retrained as necessary.

In Europe, where the university e-learning projects in most cases actively supported by public funding, their global mission is declared as the accessibility of education, providing opportunities to take part in the educational process in any category of adults, regardless of their circumstances.

The introduction of e-learning can be a good source of income for the university in implementing training courses, training of students or courses in specific subjects for individual training. In these programs, students learn the material on their own with the help of e-learning courses have been laid out on the site, have the opportunity to remotely receive advice of teachers and only passing the final tests and examinations to come directly to the university.


Additional professional education, realized through e-learning, is a demand for many social groups. These include specialists who need to improve their skills, seeking to find or change the profession, as well as people with disabilities, which means e-learning can pursue higher education without leaving home. With integrated e-learning programs to lose, and to develop their skills or acquire new skills can young mothers on maternity leave, small and medium-sized businesses that do not have time and money on expensive full-time business schools, industrial workers working in shifts mode , the military - contractors, etc.

For these categories of students are the most important characteristic of e-learning opportunities to flexibly organize the learning process. This is primarily asynchronous education process, evening classes, flexible scheduling, continuous set of students, student - centered learning, e-library, computer simulation.

In this paper we consider the types of e-learning, which is based on World Wide Web Internet. Information basis of such systems are hosted on computers - servers, network e-learning courses.

To create a full-fledged e-learning systems (SEA), the following components:
- A learning management system (LMS) (Learning Management System, LMS);
- E-learning courses as a set of training materials - the content of the system;
- The system of control of knowledge, evaluation of students;
- Remote counseling students;
- Telecommunications environment, the channels of communication.

Educational resources that are used in e-learning, ranging from simple graphic images and video clips, animations, and interactive models, illustrated text materials to interactive books of problems that include themed sets of tasks with means of automatic verification and testing organization and control, support for specific learning paths and fully electronic courses that combine other types of digital resources in various combinations.


Developed as tools for teaching online, so-called "virtual classrooms", webinars, which allow by means of synchronous video to create the illusion of students sitting at their computers, on a real training session. However, the widespread introduction of webinars prevent low capacity of the Russian channels Internet connection. An alternative to this method are recording lectures.

Accommodation lectures in video format allows you to increase the efficiency of formation of new training programs, as ready to remove the course easier than to prepare a material for publication on the website. But it is associated with certain difficulties. Lectures last for at least 45 minutes - it's difficult to grasp the video format on the web, so developers need to supplement their various services, such as the ability to simultaneously view the presentation on the course or other related learning objects.

Analysis of educational e-learning resources provided by various educational websites, shows that most of the available multimedia lessons there - is a linear representation of educational information.

However, e-learning is effective only when the media object is an integral component of electronic lectures, when the transfer of part of an interactive seminars, opportunities intermediate knowledge control with a remote computer testing, implemented virtual laboratories and workshops to consolidate the theoretical material.

The purpose and audience of the project e-learning depends on what part of the online materials studied by students in the free mode, and what percentage of online courses is conducted in accordance with a strict sequence of passing the path of learning.

One of the obvious problems of e-learning is to support the students' independent work. Funds advanced search solutions, wealth of information and Internet tools developed LMS-open before the teachers even more opportunities students' motivation, communication with them and doing interesting discussions than in traditional classroom work.

Why is My Choice - Distance Education

So, what's better than full-time distance learning? Let's examine this 

Distance learning has its niche optimum application, which must be well understood. In this niche, there are certain limits. Within these boundaries, the appropriateness of the use of distance learning - is not in doubt, and its efficiency and performance - is much higher than full-time.

("Efficiency" - the ratio of the results to the effort. "Effectiveness" - the ability to produce results.)

Difficult to teach remotely, for example, swimming, driving, or driving down the nails, but a huge number of skills is best just to teach remotely.

Development of distance learning technologies began with the development of computer technology, and communications. Modern technology allows the teacher and student to freely communicate without personal meetings and visits. Such communication is carried out, as in the "on-line" (with the simultaneous presence of both the Internet), and "off-line" (through correspondence). Distance learning much in terms of time and effort, and money to the students. This is useful both for students and for teachers. This improves the efficiency of training.

It is a harmonious combination of modern technology and the efforts of the teacher - provides a significant increase in the efficiency of learning. Therefore, people who are trained on e-learning programs (remotely) showed better results achieved in the lives of more than are being trained in the classroom full-time.

Comparison of distance education with full-time for each of the options, allows you to get a complete picture of all the features and benefits of e-learning:

1.UDOBSTVO TRAINING

Classroom Learning:

Often people are not able to select the desired program of study of their full-time options, since they do not exist, or they do not fit on the place, time, schedule, cost, quality.

Realizing that education in a particular case is not available to the student, many no longer even find ways of learning, while the speed of technology development requires continuous learning throughout their lives.

Moreover, continuing education should be convenient, efficient and economical.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Many people (especially burdened by work and family commitments) can not sit at a desk every day for several hours a day in a certain place on a tight schedule. Distance learning gives everyone the opportunity to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, abilities on the job, home, family, without breaking their plots and plans.

Distance learning is convenient, economical, efficient, effective. Full-time - quite expensive.

2.EKONOMICHNOST

Classroom Learning:

Full-time training requires travel. Transportation costs often exceed the cost of the training. The time spent on the road, often exceeds the duration of the training. When you want to add to that the price at the location of the school, such training is too wasteful exercise. Time is no less valuable asset than money. Time - capital that is not possible, nor save for the future, not buy. You can either use a rational or irrational. The group meeting in the classroom on a tight schedule - this is inefficient use of time, money, effort.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Savings in distance learning is how to save money and to save time, energy and nerves. Learning to remotely person is free from traffic stress, and road fatigue. Cost of distance learning is less full-time in two or more (up to ten), and the rate of training - is much higher.

Modern technologies make it possible to grade and quality control of training, even better than the full-time training.

3.ORIENTATSIYA on interest Educational

Classroom Learning:

Man forced to learn to set over the rigid schedule, often goes to a state of fatigue, when not to in order to learn where the information is not perceived (after work, evening, etc.), and on schedule, when it is not perceived ( people can effectively learn a half-hour, but not half a day).

The full-time teaching unavoidable absences, and the irreplaceable loss of important knowledge units. Miss one or more classes, such as illness, a student misses an important and necessary key information, and hopelessly behind. Often such irreparable gap in the future, and is a cause for termination of training.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Distance learning - is training to your home, at your workplace. This training, a person can, ready and able to learn, but not when scheduled lecture. And people learn as much time as assimilates information. It is believed that a person can learn new knowledge is not more than an hour or two a day.

E-learning is much more fun learning in the classroom. Such training provides freedom of movement and activity, flexibility training schedule, cultivate responsible for their decisions and actions, as well as - of inactivity. A student who took a break from training, do not miss any of the curriculum, and that's very important - will be consistently solid knowledge - knowledge gaps in distance learning - does not happen. Schedule, the time and duration of classes each sets itself.

4. CONTROL STUDY

Classroom Learning:

When teaching a group in the audience, it is often impossible to control the understanding of the material. Control takes a lot of time, so for the sake of presentation, its limit. It is very difficult to provide quality control of each group in the training in the classroom. Personal communication is not possible in the training group. When training group, the rate of training set underachiever. Gifted with frankly bored. Laggards - have not kept pace.

With distance learning, his pace lessons and training schedule - set himself a student.

DISTANCE LEARNING:

Computer is able to record and monitor impartially training in many ways, and greatly help the teacher in control.

Teacher more time talking each student. This is very important for training - each student is important to have feedback, and to know that he understands the situation set out, and correctly apply the knowledge obtained. Remotely possible to do all this. The full-time training on it just do not have time and opportunity.

5. ACTIVITY IN EDUCATION

Classroom Learning:

When training is very important activity of students. The student acquires knowledge only when it is active in the learning process. Often difficult to achieve in the classroom activity of students in a group, because people do not want to expose their knowledge or, even more so - to publicly display their ignorance, as did not want to publicly make mistakes, especially when learning to adults.

Low efficiency of group learning is based on expectations that they can hide behind the backs of others.

The duration of full-time training is always limited in time, and the teacher most of the time allocated busy presentation. Therefore, the full-time training, the student is not able to ask the teacher any questions, and get answers. With distance learning, learning to communicate with the teacher.