Distance Education
by Debbie Brown
1. Learners
1.1. underserved pupulation
1.1.1. disenfranchised
1.1.2. Women
1.1.3. Special needs students
1.2. Home Schoolers
1.3. Armed forces
1.4. Working adults
2. Post-Industrial era
2.1. Hybrid learning
2.2. Online learning
2.3. Collaborative learning
2.4. Constructivist principles
2.5. Two-way communication
2.5.1. student to student
2.5.2. student to teacher
3. Technologies
3.1. Synchronous
3.1.1. video-conferencing
3.1.2. Chat
3.2. Asynchronous
3.2.1. Cds
3.2.2. Radio
3.2.3. Television
3.2.4. Webpages
3.2.4.1. Wikis
3.2.4.2. Blogs
3.2.4.3. Web 2.0 tools
3.3. Communication
3.3.1. Mail system
4. Media
4.1. Text
4.2. Images
4.3. Sounds
4.4. Artifacts
5. Industrial era
5.1. Correspondence learning
5.2. Autonomous learning
5.3. one-way communication
6. Objectives
6.1. Accessibility
6.2. Flexibility
6.3. Professional development
6.4. Profit
6.5. Sharing
6.5.1. Open Universities