This page is meant to be a primer to individuals who do not know or are not sure what distance learning is. For those of you who do know, you may want to go directly to my page of Distance Learning Links . If you want to see ways of funding distance learning go to this summary of How States Fund Distance Leaning . Distance Learning or Distance Education is becoming a popular and viable way for teaching and learning. Adults continue their education, K-12 teachers use it to enrich classroon instruction and college professors teach courses to students all over the world.
DL allows independent study, group study or real-time interaction.
A good definition of distance learning is the use of electronic means to distribute education or training for education or business. This could be television, videotape, interactive video, audio-graphics, satellite video or any other electronic means. Distance Learning allows adult students to take classes whenever and where ever they are. Businesses are able to offer training sessions to employees at several sites. Middle school teachers can show the dissection of a frog without having to do it in the classroom.