Distance Education

1. Technology

1.1. Correspondence

1.1.1. Text

1.1.2. Audio

1.1.3. Video

1.2. Internet

1.2.1. Text

1.2.2. Audio

1.2.3. Video

1.2.4. Online Communication

1.3. New node

2. Communication/Collaboration

2.1. Internet

2.2. Interactive Forums

2.3. Chat

2.4. Social Networking

2.5. Audio/Video Conferencing

3. Institutional Organization

3.1. Objectives

3.2. Target Students

3.3. Constraints

3.4. Cost/Benefit Analysis

3.5. Needs Analysis

3.6. Division of Labor

3.7. Content Experts

3.8. Instructional Design

3.9. Technology

3.10. Planning

3.11. Management

4. Context/Environment

4.1. Economic

4.2. Social

4.3. Cultural

4.4. Political/Historical

4.5. Philisophical

4.6. Psychological

5. Theory

5.1. Industrialized

5.1.1. Division of labor

5.1.2. Mass production/distribution

5.1.3. Capital investment

5.1.4. Planning

5.2. Pedagogy

5.2.1. Instructional Design

5.2.2. Leveraging technology

5.2.3. Methods

5.2.4. Learning assessment

5.2.5. Research

6. Practice

6.1. Tools

6.2. Resources

6.3. Best practices

6.4. Technologies

6.5. Practitioner education

6.6. Experience

6.7. Research

7. Teacher/Student Separation

7.1. Time

7.2. Space

7.3. Autonomy of student

7.4. Teacher interaction/evaluation