DISTANCE EDUCATION

The increasing need for education, limitations on access to information centres, economic problems, a lack of experienced experts, and the costs of education brought about the development of new delivery methods for instruction. There is a growing need for methods that are economical, high quality, and suitable for use by large populations. The meaning of "literacy" is being able to read and write, but as Alvin Toffler has said, in the 21st century, an illiterate is not one who cannot read or write but one who cannot teach or learn. The intention of this short paper is to define and describe Distance Education and the funding purposes. Distance education describes is designed to facilitate distance learning. Distance learning is what educator does the educating; the learner does the learning from distance through the technology. In distance education the primary purpose is to provide access the knowledge for learners, who are not able, or do not wish to, participate in campus based learning for the different reasons. Today's developing affordances of the internet have impact on conventional delivery and provide a level of flexibility for learners in the way they have many choices for their learning.