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Meaning and Scope of Distance Education
Course: Distance education (EDM3091)
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Meaning and Scope of Distance Education
Distance education, to put it simply, is a method of delivering instruction to
students who are located at a distance from the location where the
instruction is being delivered. 'Distance education' refers to the
institutionalised education provided or received by correspondence/distance
educational institutions and open universities. Let's take a look at some
distance education definitions to get a better idea of what it is and how it
differs from correspondence education, if there are any.
Numerous experts in the field of distance education offer their own
definitions of the term. Many different names have been given to this type of
education, including correspondence, open learning, and more. By Dohmen's
definition (1967, p. 9), distance education is an organised form of self-study
in which students are counselled, presented with learning materials, and
monitored and supervised by teams of teachers each with their own set of
specific duties, according to Keegan (1998a).
The term "distance teaching" was coined by Moore (1972, as cited in 'I"ight,
1990, p.156).
A wide variety of instructional methods are available, including those that
allow for the teaching and learning to take place simultaneously in a
contiguous environment. The teacher and student must be able to
communicate with each other through print, electronic, mechanical, or other
means. "Dialogue" measures how well a student and teacher can
communicate with one another, while the second variable, "structure,"
assesses how well a school's curriculum responds to the unique needs of
each student. He came up with three different kinds of distance education
programmes by combining dialogue and structure:
programmes with no dialogue and structure (-D -S), programmes with
dialogue but no structure (-D + S), and, programmes with dialogue but no
structure (-D - S) are all examples of this category.
No dialogue and no structure are represented by the letters +D and +S, while
none are represented by the letters -D and -S.
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