Editing Distance education (section)

{{Short description|Mode of delivering education to students who are not physically present}}
{{Distinguish|homeschooling|out-of-school learning}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}}

'''Distance education''', also known as '''distance learning''', is the education of students who may not always be physically present at [[school]],<ref name="Kaplan Haenlein 2016">{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/j.bushor.2016.03.008 |title=Higher education and the digital revolution: About MOOCs, SPOCs, social media, and the Cookie Monster |journal=Business Horizons |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=441–50 |year=2016 |last1=Kaplan |first1=Andreas M. |last2=Haenlein |first2=Michael }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last=Honeyman |first=M |author2=Miller, G |date=December 1993 | title= Agriculture distance education: A valid alternative for higher education? | journal =Proceedings to the 20th Annual National Agricultural Education Research Meeting | pages= 67–73 |url=http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED366794.pdf#page=80 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430055648/http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED366794.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-30 |url-status=live }}</ref> or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance;<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Anderson |first1=Terry |last2=Rivera Vargas |first2=Pablo |date=June 2020 |title=A Critical look at Educational Technology from a Distance Education Perspective |journal=Digital Education Review |issue=37 |pages=208–229 |doi=10.1344/der.2020.37.208-229 |hdl=2445/172738 |s2cid=225664918 |url=http://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/handle/2445/172738 |issn=2013-9144|hdl-access=free }}</ref> today, it usually involves '''online education''' (also known as '''online learning''', '''remote learning''' or '''remote education''') through an [[online school]]. A distance learning program can either be completely online, or a combination of both online and traditional in-person (also known as, offline) classroom instruction (called hybrid<ref>{{cite journal |last=Tabor | first = Sharon W |date= Spring 2007 |title= Narrowing the Distance: Implementing a Hybrid Learning Model |journal= Quarterly Review of Distance Education | volume = 8 |issue=1 |pages=48–49 |publisher=IAP |issn=1528-3518 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b46TLTrx0kUC | access-date=23 January 2011| isbn = 9787774570793 }}</ref> or [[Blended learning|blended]]).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Vaughan |first1=Norman D. |editor1-first=MF |editor1-last= Cleveland-Innes |editor2-first= DR | editor2-last =Garrison |title=An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AI5as0yooGoC | access-date=23 January 2011 | year=2010 | publisher=Taylor & Francis | isbn=978-0-415-99598-6 | page=165 | chapter=Blended Learning}}</ref>

[[Massive open online course]]s (MOOCs), offering large-scale interactive participation and open access through the [[World Wide Web]] or other network technologies, are recent educational modes in distance education.<ref name="Kaplan Haenlein 2016" /> A number of other terms (distributed learning, [[educational technology|e-learning]], [[m-learning]], virtual classroom, etc.) are used roughly synonymously with distance education. E-learning has shown to be a useful educational tool. E-learning should be an interactive process with multiple learning modes for all learners at various levels of learning. The distance learning environment is an exciting place to learn new things, collaborate with others, and retain self-discipline.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/distance-learning|title=Simonson, Michael and Berg, Gary A.. "distance learning"|date=2023-02-17|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=April 18, 2023}}</ref>

Historically, it involved '''correspondence courses''' wherein the student corresponded with the school via [[mail]], but with the evolution of different technologies it has evolved to include [[video conferencing]], [[TV]], and the [[Internet]].<ref name=":3" />