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With the help of developing technology, learning and teaching activities are not just
occurring in regular classrooms, but also online classrooms as well. Online classroom is one
of the other option for most people. There are different names for this term such as distance
education, online education, online course, remote education, distance learning and etc.
Distance education can be defined as listed:
It is a method of study where teachers and students do not meet in a classroom but use
the Internet, e-mail, mail, etc., to have classes.
It is institution-based, formal education where the learning group is separated, and
where interactive telecommunications systems are used to connect learners, resources,
and instructors.
Education that uses one or more technologies to deliver instruction to students who
are separated from the instructor and to support regular and substantive interaction
between the students and the instructor synchronously or asynchronously.
Technologies used for instruction may include the following: Internet; one-way and
two-way transmissions through open broadcasts, closed circuit, cable, microwave,
broadband lines, fiber optics, satellite or wireless communication devices; audio
conferencing; and video cassette, DVDs, and CD-ROMs, if the cassette, DVDs, and
CD-ROMs are used in a course in conjunction with the technologies listed above.
Distance education serves different kinds of learning opportunities to everyone along
their entire life. It depends on development of information and communication technologies
(Kiryakova, 2009). Kiryakova (2009) also states that distance education can be as efficient as
traditional education when there are appropriate methods and technologies about its
realization.
References
Bichelmeyer, B., Kennedy J. (2012). Definitions of Distance Education for SIS Coding and
definitions.pdf
http://www.aect.org/pdf/DistED/CH_1.pdf
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/distance%20learning
Franklin, N., Yoakam, M. & Warren, R. (1996). Distance learning: a guidebook for system
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279448170_Review_of_distance_education