Friday, June 24, 2011

Distance Education

Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the use of television and the Internet and other media of teaching, it broke through the boundaries of time and space, different from the traditional comfort of their needs in the classroom to the school's teaching. Using this teaching model for students, who usually is an amateur study. Since no particular place to classes, so lessons can be anywhere. Students can also be broadcast via television, Internet, counseling line, class research community, face to face (correspondence) and so many different channels mutual learning. Narrow sense Distance education refers to a particular educational organization, integrated application of a certain period of social technology, collection, design, development and use of educational resources, building the educational environment, and technology based on a certain period of social, educational resources and educational environment for students provision of educational services, and for the purpose of teaching and social organization and thus a number of group meetings for students to exchange (in the traditional face to face or by modern electronic means), to help and promote the student for the purpose of all distance learning activities in general practice . In all activities, teachers are in the form of educational resources or learning to help promote the identity of the student maintains a quasi-permanent separation of the state; and students with educational organizations (teachers), or between students and students will be through the establishment of two-way communication mechanism to maintain a real-time or multi-session. Generalized Distance education students and teachers, students and educational organizations to take a variety of media between the main approach to the teaching systems and Correspondence form of education, the curriculum is delivered to campus one or more outside of the education of students. Modern distance education is refers to audio, video (live or video) and include real-time and non real-time programs, including computer technology to transmit to the campus education. Modern distance education is the development of modern information technology generated a new type of education. Computer technology, multimedia technology, communication technology, especially the Internet (internet) the rapid development of the means of distance education has been a qualitative leap into high-tech under the conditions of distance education. Modern distance education based on modern means of distance education-based, compatible with face to face, correspondence and other traditional forms of teaching and learning, a variety of media optimize the combination of education.
 
Distance education can effectively play the characteristics of distance education, as opposed to a face to face education, teachers and students separated from non-face teaching activities of the organization, it is a cross-school, regional education system and teaching mode, which features are: students and teachers separated; the use of specific transport systems and media of instruction; the transmission of information in various ways; place of learning and flexible form. Compared with face to face education, distance education has the advantage that it can break through time and space constraints; provide more learning opportunities; expand the teaching scale; improve the quality of teaching; reduce teaching costs. Based on the characteristics and advantages of distance education, many people of insight have recognized the importance of the development of distance education and broad prospects. Development experience Distance education delivery of information in different ways and means, its development has gone through three phases, the first is a paper-based mail transfer of correspondence education stage, the second is based on radio, television, radio and television audio and video-based teaching phase ; third is through the computer, multimedia and telecommunications technology combining online distance education stage. With TV, telephone, computer, Internet and gradually spread, online distance education has been getting closer and closer to us, for us, in fact, in big cities it has come to our side. Currently, the staff participated Wang Xiao learning is gradually increasing, according to the learning objectives divided into academic degrees, vocational training, on-line charging other three types. Learning is currently divided into collective and individual classes to learn two. On the other hand, a variety of Internet-campus are everywhere, run through a regular university recognized by the State Education Commission of its undergraduate education, graduate-campus courses; the well-known focus for secondary school entrance examination on the Internet to engage in the counseling to the main-campus exam-oriented education; some commercial websites charge for those who hold some of the online vocational and technical training-campus and so on. Peking University, Beijing University of Business Management Network is the teaching of the implementation of distance education institutions, is the first class. The requirements of learners Determine the characteristics of distance education distance learning to self-oriented, most of the students learning time with teachers, students are separated, no classrooms, and no atmosphere in the classroom, many of these features are just beginning to make the distance learning students will inevitably encounter some difficulties or some are not used. Therefore, distance learning requires the learner should first have the ability to both. Always self-motivation for learning. Most students participate in distance learning for adults, their motivation to learn a wide range, but nothing more than to improve education, increase skills, job charging, extended range of occupations and so on. They generally have a strong motivation to learn, the more clear learning objectives, but after long years of the learning process can hold the resulting motivation is to determine the key to the success of their learning. Initiative to explore. Adult students should have the ability to determine how much time invested in learning to develop their own learning plan, select and gradually adapt to a learning method. Learning to learn has become the 21st century, one of the four pillars of education; for distance learners, it also has great significance. In the specific learning process in the face of a problem, active learners will not only accept an answer, or wait for the teacher to tell you what the point of view or position held; will not be confined to a book or textbook up a section of a chapter to find the answers. Active learners will take the initiative to try a variety of solutions to establish their own ideas, through their own initiative decided to explore what to do, how to do that. Peking University Business School Network to encourage students in the learning process of active exploration, active thinking, trying to understand what they have learned, rather than rote memorization, passive acceptance. In addition, with the information society, the formation of learning society and knowledge economy era, education is undergoing profound changes. Participate in distance education, learning, learning is necessary to change their attitudes and perceptions.
 
● Although less time face to face, demanding an independent study, but through this new form of learning, can improve their ability to learn.
 
● In the information society, people living and working environment changes faster and faster, to face the emerging new knowledge and new technologies. One-time school education can not meet the social needs of individuals for life. Only continuous learning in order to keep up with the life and work rhythm.
 
● Distance education for all learners to provide equal learning opportunities for higher education is no longer the rights of the minority, but the basic conditions for individual survival; educational resources, educational objects, time and space of the breadth of education for the public provide the possibility of lifelong learning.
 
● education is not only acquire knowledge but also learn how to learn for the future to continue to learn to develop good study habits; master the necessary learning skills. Learn to use modern information technology for self-study on the future continue to acquire knowledge and improve the education level will be very useful. In distance education, Internet and other media to provide learning opportunities to learners, while learners should learn to adapt to the network learning. So, learners should be:
 
1 to master the basic skills learning (2) to stimulate the motivation of potential (Ausubel's cognitive drive, driving force of the dominant role of self-improvement) 3 learn to adjust their emotional learning (learning in networks often feel loneliness, learners should be an open platform for active participation in discussions, exchange of knowledge and experience, etc.)
 
4 to improve their metacognitive skills (metacognition is the awareness of the processes of planning, monitoring, regulation skills, thereby enhancing the learning efficiency) In addition, the network should also provide learners with adaptive learning support. According to the study of learners of different backgrounds, knowledge base, learning styles, individual differences in learning ability to establish the learner model, the use of artificial intelligence techniques to reason, to provide learners with personalized learning content. To improve the adaptability of the system of distance learners. This distance learning to the learner and the system of two-way adaptation mechanisms, so that the distance learning with the mature direction.

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