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. High school students in a rural area are able to take advanced courses even though there is not a teacher in the local school district certified to teach the course. Distance Learning allows adult students to complete their degrees or even get their high school diploma. Degree programs can be completed at any college or university in the world. Students are able to do so on their own schedules whether they work 9 to 5 or the graveyard shift.