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Distance education - education that is fully or partially carried out using computers and telecommunications technologies and means. The subject of distance education is removed from the teacher, and/or educational means, and/or educational resources. Distance education is carried out with the predominance of distance educational technologies, forms, methods and means of training in the educational process, as well as using information and educational arrays of the Internet.
It is believed that the first attempt to create a distance form of education was made back in 1840, when Isaac Pitman, using mail, began to teach shorthand for students in the United Kingdom. In Russia, the date of the official development of distance learning can be considered May 30, 1997, when an order was issued by the Ministry of Education of Russia, allowing educational institutions to teach students remotely.
Many mistakenly believe that correspondence and distance learning are the same thing, however, this is fundamentally a wrong opinion. If a correspondence student comprehends the basics of knowledge on his own, using textbooks, and can ask questions to teachers only two or three times a year (depending on the number of sessions), then a person studying remotely, via the Internet, has constant contact with teachers. In correspondence learning, the pace of knowledge acquisition is fixed and uniform for the entire group, and with distance learning, each student has the opportunity to devote more effort and time to in-depth study to more complex and important topics for him. Of course, for each completed section of the program, students report no less strictly than in the full-time or correspondence department.
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