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Distance Education School - A New Revolution in Distance & Online Learning

DistanceEducationSchool.com emerges as a trusted platform for distance and online education in India, offering free ...
Education Week

Distance Learning

Editor’s Note: For more recent information on distance learning, please read our 2016 explainer, Technology in Education: An Overview. Early in the education technology boom, “distance learning” ...
Commercial Integrator

Distance Education: What We Learned, What Works and What Doesn’t

Effective distance learning is about content — specifically, content delivery and content comprehension. In other words, distance learning is about people. Because it’s people, after all, who send the ...
The Conversation

Distance learning changes lives, but comes with its own challenges

Ashley Gunter receives funding from, The Arts and Humanities Research Council UK, British Academy UK, National Research Foundation, Newton Fund UK. Across Africa, distance education has become one of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The 1950s TV Show That Set the Stage for Today’s Distance Learning

Between 1957 and 1982, “Sunrise Semester” broadcasted lectures from NYU faculty to the general public. Screenshot via YouTube In May 1962, the New York Times profiled Cora Gay Carr, a 37-year-old ...
EdTech

How Have Educators Adapted Distance Learning for Special Education Students?

Teaching special education online has its own unique challenges, but teachers have found ways to use educational technology to aid students. Special education instructors, like everyone else, turned ...
The Conversation

Distance learning: the five qualities student teachers need to succeed

Senior Lecturer, Director Teaching, Learning and Program Development, Sol Plaatje University International bodies, politicians, policy makers and researchers have always been interested in the way ...
The Journal

The Origins of Distance Education and its use in the United States

In 1840, Sir Issac Pitman, the English inventor of shorthand, came up with an ingenious idea for delivering instruction to a potentially limitless audience: correspondence courses by mail. Pitman's ...

IGNOU Open And Distance Learning January 2025 Session Registration Begins, Complete Details Inside

Applicants must meet eligibility criteria: pass Class 12 for undergraduate, hold a bachelor’s degree for postgraduate, and ...
The Hill

The failure of distance learning presents an opportunity to better engage parents

With notable exceptions, distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a failure in the United States. Children are struggling to keep up with curriculum, and parents are often finding ...
UNESCO

Embracing Distance Education in Cameroon: Ensuring Continuity during COVID-19 Crisis

The search for solutions for educational continuity has then established distance education as the most secure mode of learning for this period of crisis. The training of educators in alternative ...