The phrase "distant education" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a type of education that takes place remotely, often through online platforms or correspondence courses. Example: "Many universities now offer distant education programs to cater to students who are unable to attend classes on campus."
As the new network, the Schools Co-operative Society is finding the model is not a distant education department but the people who work there and learn there.
Ferdi Alimadhi leads the Engineering department at Open Learning, responsible for providing software development, tools, technical infrastructure and related services in support of digital teaching and learning, as well as distant education at MIT.
Distant education could also support face-to-face teaching.
Educators typically use video as support material in K-12 and higher education and as a substitute for the physical lecture in distant education settings.
For that very reason, many of us choose to continue learning through part-time courses and distant education even while still paying off college loans--that is, if we can afford it.
As a consequence, more universities are looking at blended learning - a form of distant education - or at MOOCs as a possible solution.
A range of programmes is being run, including point-of-care in rural and urban areas, treatment compliance, data collection and disease surveillance, and distant medical education.
Largely in accordance with the framework used by the mHealth Alliance [ 24], the organizations interviewed were categorized as follows: (i) point-of-care support (24 cases), (ii) data collection and disease surveillance (three cases), (iii) treatment compliance (two cases) and (iv) distant medical education (three cases).
In those distant days, higher education was a privilege afforded to very few.
"There was a sense that the system was failing, the centralization was too rigid, the bureaucracy was too distant," Diane Ravitch, an education historian, said of New York City schools yesterday.
And with the emergence of technologies like Skype, which many universities and colleges are using even for resident students, as well as distant learning courses, education can be delivered from any location.
