Distance Learning

Going Further

Web Examples | Going Further

Clearly, many of the techniques discussed in this Tutorial could be used in distance learning (though the technologies used in distance learning are more diverse than just the Web-based ones discussed here). Indeed, this Tutorial itself, if you are accessing it over the Web, is an example of distance learning. Here are some further links related to distance learning:

• Distance Learning FAQ
• The World Lecture Hall (List of Electronic Courses)
• List of Electronic Courses
• alt.education.distance (Newsgroup)

Distance learning is only peripherally related to this Tutorial because its most common implementations involve education beyond the K-12 level. However, we include it for completeness because many of the technologies that we discuss are directly relevant to distance learning, and because there are aspects of distance learning that are relevant to K-12 environments.

For example, a partnering of smaller schools having less breadth in their faculties with larger schools having greater faculty depth through distance learning technologies could broaden the curriculum available at the smaller schools. Cable modems and related high band-width technology could provide the data transmission rates required to implement such a program.