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Essay on Different Types of Distant Learning
I. Marketing Concept
Distance Education is the process of extending learning, or delivering instructional resource-sharing opportunities, to locations away from a classroom, building or site, to another classroom, building or site by using video, audio, computer, multimedia communications, or some combination of these with other traditional delivery methods.
As educational institutions extend their campuses, as the population ages, and as the advance of technology requires a greater need for worker retraining, colleges increasingly have to cater to a different type of student in order to stay ahead and serve their communities. These students are older and most will work during usual classroom hours. They require flexible learning schedules. They demand professional development opportunities and classes to help them keep up with today's ever-changing work environment.
Students come to college for various reasons. They could be interested in changing careers or they might simply want to expand their knowledge base for work or personal reasons. They might want to expand their cultural background, learn a new language, or start a degree program that was postponed as a result of family or career needs. For case in point, many high school principals in Texas find distance education courses particularly convenient.
The school can use telecommunications to deliver courses to high school campuses in order to offer "concurrent enrollment classes" to juniors and seniors who want to get advanced college placement from the Dallas County Community College District. Their main reason for choosing distance education as a delivery method is that they want to learn at their own pace, and at a time and location that is convenient to them. A majority of distance learning students is female and many are single parents who want to stay close to home for various reasons. They might not be able to pay for childcare or must care for a confined relative at home.............
