Redefining Distance Learning For The Future:

Redefining Distance Learning For The Future: Distance learning has an extensive history and has been utilized throughout many countries over the past 160 years, but only during the last decade has it started to really gain acceptance and popularity. Since its inception, distance learning has evolved from correspondence courses, to educational radio, one and two-way teleconferencing, educational television, video conferencing, and today, distance learning opportunities are most commonly found in a computer assisted/Web-based interactive environment (…

…to select the means of distance learning before selecting and justifying the ends and consequences that they commit to deliver(Kaufman, 2001; Kaufman & Watkins, 2000.) In conclusion, the future of distance learning is being redefined at this very moment. I have presented in this essay a few concepts, approaches, tools and techniques that I believe if implemented will lead our organizations and communities toward achieving useful results with regards to the future of distance learning.