Distance Education

Definition of Distance Learning

Distance learning is a technology that is changing as rapidly as technology itself changes which is almost in nanosecond bits according to some. I believe that Distance Education is changing because of more advanced technology. It is changing because we learn at a much more rapid rate than we did 300 to 400 years ago.

Distance education, or distance learning, is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy, technology, and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "on site".

Personal Definition

My personal definition of distance education is education that takes place in a location where the one who is doing the instructing is not in the same place as the one who is learning. Distance education has been a reward for me because it has afforded the opportunity to be a half-time student, with a full-time career and life. I am a teacher by profession and passion. I know what it is to teach and be taught, requiring from my students their best and wanting at every level to give my best.

Revised Definition

I think that Distance Education is not necessarily based on the technical knowledge that one has to a certain degree. Distance Education is available to all people from all backgrounds. Distance education can be in the form of a television program, written correspondence, via satellite or computer. It does not always in involve the most technologically advanced systems that we know as being apart of our current society. It is where one who instructs teaches from a different location those who will learn.

Future of Distance Learning

I see the future of distance learning from a clear perspective. I am most certainly a product of Distance Education. I believe that there will be millions more people who will subscribe to distance learning in the very near future. It will afford people the opportunity to seek out a degree that they have wanted to pursue but never felt that have had the time to sit in a traditional classroom. Traditional classrooms will still be around but not in brick and mortar as we know it today, they will be much more enhanced. The future of distance is wide open for those who will seek it out.