DISTANCE EDUCATION Y VIRTUAL SCHOOL

Eduacion Distance

Distance education is the term used to describe the learning that takes place via audiovisual networks established between remote sites.

Distance learning is a mode that allows the educational act by different methods, techniques, strategies and means in a situation where students and teachers are physically separated and relate only occasionally in person

Distance education is called to that in which the student continues studies from home, without having to go to a school, or doing so only occasionally. Access to learning materials is provided by various methods, which have evolved with the progress in media and communication technologies.

This is a way of learning that has long been a reality for many students.

Combination of education and technology to reach their audience through large distances is the hallmark of distance learning.

 Criteria:

We can identify three criteria for distance education. These are:Separation of teachers and students, at least in most parts of the process.

The use of technological means to bring education teachers and students.

Using two-way communication between students and instructors

Features:
Distance education also is characterized by being a form of teaching that is at the midpoint between the learning is done alone or in isolation, without help, and traditional learning in groups, depending on a face-to-face.
Another significant feature of distance education is its accessibility. Its use allows a large number of people coming, with possibilities of knowledge.

¿How is the Distance Education?

Currently using a variety of electronic means to send or receive support materials for distance education. Each institution determines the most appropriate means, within which they have at their disposal and their students too, and they made ​​the combinations that best suit their capabilities.

 

The media can be classified into four major categories:

Data: Refers to the information sent and received through computers.

Voice: The educational tools related to the voice can be divided into interactive and passive.
Among the former are the telephone and audio conferencing. The technological tools are passive voice audiocassettes and radio.

Video: Inside the video are still images, such as computer presentations (PowerPoint, etc.) filmed moving images (movies, videos, digitized film, etc..) and moving images transmitted in real time.

These can be in one direction, such as those sent via satellite or commercial television or may be through the videoconferences computers.

Forms: This was the basic form of distance education programs, from the current systems evolved. Includes textbooks, study guides, workbooks, curricula, case studies, etc. At present some of the printed forms have been displaced by data sent via computer and made ​​available to students via the Internet, where it is common to find lesson plans, readings, study guides and some materials more.

 

Multiple Media

Following the introduction of distance education in the world of education appeared the concept of "virtual school. "
The virtual school is one school which offers instruction in a single physical space (school) or within fixed times (school) and any student or teacher she can connect and interact without spatial or temporal constraints.

These virtual schools Provide Great Opportunities for Students Who Can Not Attend the regular course for Different Reasons and in Some Cases May Be model technology or more Successful Than Conventional education
Virtual School Models

These virtual schools Provide Great Opportunities for Students Who Can Not Attend the regular course for Different Reasons and in Some Cases May Be model technology or more Successful Than Conventional education

School classroom where the teacher teaches teaching from outside the physical space of the center.

Through the Internet, both students at the school and students who are outside it, can participate inclasses. One of the main advantages of this scheme is the fact of allowing experts to make certain teaching materials from anywhere in the world

Virtual schools where there is no physical school. In this format the school does not physically exist as construction but is generated through a Web space where both students and teachers come together over the Internet and from different locations.

One of the most successful models of virtual schools that are in the United States is the Concord Consortium's Virtual High School (VHS), which was founded by the Department of Education of the United States.

However, the European Union has set as a priority the effective integration of information technology and communication (ICT) within the education system and well and in the Lisbon summit set the <<Learning Action Plan>>.