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Distance education has 5 key characteristics: flexibility, convenience, lower cost, quality, and the ability to study at one's own pace. It offers various forms, including video conferencing (synchronous), hybrid learning (part in-person, part online), asynchronous learning where students watch pre-recorded lectures on their own schedule, open-schedule online courses, and fixed-time online courses. Distance learning overcomes barriers of distance, time, resources, and cost, and the future of higher education is expected to incorporate more online and flexible learning opportunities.

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Distance education has 5 key characteristics: flexibility, convenience, lower cost, quality, and the ability to study at one's own pace. It offers various forms, including video conferencing (synchronous), hybrid learning (part in-person, part online), asynchronous learning where students watch pre-recorded lectures on their own schedule, open-schedule online courses, and fixed-time online courses. Distance learning overcomes barriers of distance, time, resources, and cost, and the future of higher education is expected to incorporate more online and flexible learning opportunities.

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Introduction: Distance Education has always been significant.

And it’s not a jargon to us


anymore, as we are in new normal era, this concept has become relevant for schools, not just
in our country but all around the world.

So these will be the key points throughout the course of my presentation….

5 key characteristics of distance education 

Distance education has various characteristics that make this model of learning so attractive
for students around the world, but the following characteristics are most important: 

1. Flexibility - One of the main reasons why people choose online learning is the ability to
balance their private and school commitments. In most cases, students who opt for online
education have commitments that cannot be postponed. 
2. Convenient - In online learning, learning materials are available to students at all times.
Educational institutions are obligated to provide each student with the learning material
necessary for passing exams and successfully completing the course. 
3. Cost effective – online education is, as a rule, significantly cheaper than traditional
education. Tuition fees are lower primarily because students are not physically present at
lectures. In addition, there are no accompanying costs of transportation, books and food.
Online education only requires a stable Internet connection and a laptop (or even a mobile
phone). 
4. Quality – distance education provides high-quality education that not only enables the
acquisition of new knowledge, but also internationally recognized diplomas and certificates.
A large number of schools that organize online courses have years of experience in this field,
and can guarantee top quality teachers and latest study programs. This is why diplomas and
certificates acquired in online programs are highly valued around the world, both by other
educational institutions and employers.   
5. Repeated– people choose distance learning because they want to have the freedom to study
when their obligations allow. This is possible thanks to the main characteristic of online
education, i.e. possibility of delayed viewing. All lectures are recorded and uploaded to the
server, after which they are available to students 24/7.  The recorded material can be paused,
rewound, or rewatched, which makes it easier to follow lessons and maintain the desired
learning pace.

Forms of Distance Education


There are different methods of distance learning, but the most practical ones have found
application in a number of educational institutions: 

 Video conferencing – form of distance education closest to traditional, face-to-face


learning. Allows teachers to directly address their students (or one student if we are
talking about private lessons). Communication takes place in real time (synchronous
learning) and it is possible to engage in dialog, just like in the traditional classroom. 
 Hybrid learning – a combined lecture that takes place in real time, and is attended
both by students physically present in the classroom and online learning students. 
 Asynchronous distance learning – a form of education where students and teachers
don’t communicate with each other in real time (usually due to being in different time
zones). Lectures are pre-recorded and can be watched and re-watched on-demand,
and students ask questions via email or one of the communication platforms. 
 Open-schedule online courses – students have access to the necessary learning
material, but they don’t have defined deadlines. Instead, they can attend courses when
it suits them. 
 Fixed-time online courses – students are required to attend lectures. 
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Conclusion: Distance Learning is an education delivery system that has come of age. The
technology now exists to provide an effective and efficient distance education delivery system
that overcomes the barriers that prevent individuals from achieving all they can through
education: The barriers of distance, time, educational resources, and cost are being overcome
with the continued refinement of distance learning programs. What will higher education look
like in the first decade of the twenty-first century?… The question is not whether a new
higher education paradigm will develop but rather how fast it will occur. Although we cannot
yet fully answer the question…, we can begin to see an outline of higher education that is
easier to access, unconstrained by barriers of space and time, student centered, and cost-
effective. For now, that appears to be a sufficient answer.

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