Now that we have defined distance education and reviewed a theories for identifying and evaluating effective distance education:

Now you should be able to:
• Define distance education
• Define e-learning and web-based learning
• Identify characteristics of distance education learning
• Describe the evolution of distance education and it’s definition of effectiveness


Finally, have you met your objectives?

Personal Objectives:

1. ____________________
2. ____________________
3. ____________________

In the next module, we will look at theories underpinning instructional design as well as take a look at the instructional design models that we will study in this course and use to guide the ISD project.