The Future of Distance Education

  • Technology and online learning are rapidly changing.
  • Internet connections will get increasingly faster for all people.
  • Not all students will have unlimited bandwidth and this limits the size of materials that can be sent.
  • Internet video conferencing will replace Interactive Television (ITV).
  • Text-based, asynchronous conferencing will evolve into full multimedia conferencing.
  • Education will be much less class-based, and much more topic-based (Downes 1998).
 

Introduction

History________________

Theories

Diversity Issues

Learner Considerations

Technology Application

Instructional Design

Conclusion

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