Distance Education

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Distance education is planned learning that normally occurs in a different place from teaching and as a result requires special techniques of course design, special instructional techniques, special methods of communication by electronic and other technology, as well as special organizational and administrative arrangements. (As defined by Michael Moore, Director of The American Center for the Study of Distance Education, Penn State, from the text Distance Education: A Systems View, co-authored by Greg Kearsley [California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1996], 2, http://www.cde.psu.edu/de/what_is_de.html.)

See also Distance Learning

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