Distance Education.

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It is a relatively modern education methods. Basic concept depends on the existence of the learner in a place different from the source, who may be a book or a teacher or even a group of students.

A transfer of an educational program from its position on the campus of an educational institution is to geographically dispersed locations. It aims to attract students can not under normal circumstances continue in a traditional educational program.


There is a common mistake to consider that distance education is synonymous with online education, and in fact, the education through the Internet is one of the means of distance education, but due to the spread of the first, it often considered synonymous with distance learning

# Constraints of distance education :



1. The high cost.

2. Community look to this style of learning.

3. Learner to look that career opportunities can not be obtained through this type of education.

4. Lack of recognition of distance education by the ministries of higher education in some Arab countries especially.

# Development of means of distance education :


Began distance education through some European universities and the U.S. in the late seventies that were you send teaching materials different from the mail to the student, and these were materials include books, tapes and videos, as a student in turn sends hypothesis school using the same method. And these universities were required to attend the student himself to the headquarters of the League for the performance of the final test under which the certificate is granted to the student. Then it developed in the late eighties to be through cable and satellite television and the British news network pioneer in this field. In the early nineties emerged strongly Internet as a means of communication quick and easy alternative to e-mail replaces ivory-mail to send light materials and assumptions.
In the late nineties and early this century appeared sites that offer a full-service education via the Web, a service which included self-learning content in addition to the possibilities of communication and sharing with classmates through the site or e-mail. The newly emerged interactive classes that allow a teacher or lecturer to deliver lessons directly on the scores of students in all parts of the globe without being bound by place and even developed these tools to allow the participation of students in dialogue and intervention .

# Distance education goals :

1. Contribute to raising the standard of cultural, scientific and social community members.


2. Replenish faculty and qualified instructors in some areas is also working on the fading weakness possibilities.



3. Working on providing a variety of educational resources and multiple, which helps to reduce the individual differences between the trainees and through the support of media training institutions and a variety of teaching techniques and interactive.

# Concrete examples :

• Arab Open University
• Al-Quds Open University
• Syrian Open University
• University van Holland (Dutch League)
• MEDIU
• Canadian American Center for Human Development   

Source: http://www.e1500.com/vb/