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 Learning Cemented as a Long-Term Piece of the Education Puzzle

Distance learning has gone from a recruiting tool for some of the most tech-savvy colleges and universities to a necessary piece of every educational institution from kindergarten all the way through ...
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 ...
Careerindia

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 ...
CNN

This is what distance learning should look like in the fall

When Kim Reeder started teaching in Parker, Colorado, 14 years ago, she found that managing the classroom environment took way more time and energy than actually teaching kids, and she couldn’t reach ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Indiatimes

Distance learning: Just a stop-gap arrangement or a sustainable way of study

Dinesh Verma, Founder & CEO, Gullybaba, a leading publication house for IGNOU help books. Schools and colleges across the country shifted to online mode during Covid as the enforcement of lockdown and ...
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 ...