BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Distance Learning
- a course of study that involves minimal or no attendance at an academic institution, but relies instead on personal study, using books, audiovisual materials, and computer-based materials. Tutorial support may be available via the telephone or Internet, and attendance at weekend or summer schools may be required. Distance learning is similar to open learning.
Wiktionary Definition for: Distance Learning
- education obtained remotely; often based on written correspondence material together with audio-visual material and sometimes summer schools and local tutorials
Additional Resources
- Distance Learning Week.
- Distance Learning Week -- The PBS Adult Learning Service and PBS LiteracyLink will set up a special Web site for Distance Learning Week, which the U.S. Distance Learning Association has designated as April 15-21. The site will highlight distance learner success stories and feature interviews with...
- Research articles 2001-03-28
- KC Distance Learning , a provider of distance learning programs for high school students including core, Honors and AP courses, has acquired the assets of Aventa Learning , a provider of online learning content and services to K-12 educational institution
- KC Distance Learning (Portland, OR), a provider of distance learning programs for high school students including core, Honors and AP courses, has acquired the assets of Aventa Learning (Anthem, AZ), a provider of online learning content and services to K-12 educational institutions. No terms were given.
- Research articles 2007-02-01
- Distance learning on the fly. (Georgia Institute of Technology).(input output)
- For most engineering students, distance learning entails working on class assignments when they get home from the office. For Marshall Groves, learning covered the distance between Iraq and Atlanta, Ga. For most engineering students, distance learning entails working on class assignments when they get...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Department of defense news release : 2005 Distance Learning Awards presented
- On Oct. 17, 2005, The United States Distance Learning Association <http://www.usdla.org/USDLA> presented its 2005 Distance Learning Awards at the Fall Training and Online Learning Conference and Expo in Long Beach, Calif. The Defense Acquisition University won awards in the following categories: * 21st Century Best Practices Award for Distance...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- AT&T and the Distance Learning Alliance "Span the Distance" with Training for the Distance Learning Environment
- BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 12, 1995--AT&T's Center for Excellence in Distance Learning CEDL and three leading universities today announced a complete curriculum of "how to do it" workshops to broaden distance-learning training skills for AT&T's videoconferencing customers.
- Research articles 1995-06-12
- Savings with satellite - satellite-based distance learning services - Technology Information
- "Real-time" knowledge yields valuable commodities. Distance learning presents a competitive advantage to organizations in the global marketplace by making it possible to train workers constrained by time, distance, or physical disability. Distance learning effectively gets the right information to the right people in real time--in other words, fast. ...
- Research articles 1999-11-01
- Using External Collaborations to Advance Distributed Learning at the University of Pennsylvania.(Caliber Learning Network helps Penn U develop distance learning programs)(Company Operations)
- Rare is today's institution of higher education that does not use some distributed learning technology -- e-mail, Web sites, chat rooms or the like -- in at least some of its courses or programs. Most have gone beyond this, perhaps planning how to use these technologies ...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- Australian support for Distance Learning in Jordan.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-22 May 2003-AUSAID: Australian support for Distance Learning in JordanC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05222003 I am pleased to announce that the Australian Government is to provide support for the University of Jordan's Distance Learning Centre to address poverty through information...
- Research articles 2003-05-22
- University of London chooses Percussion Software's Rhythmyx ECM solution to manage content for distance learning programme; Britain's oldest distance learning programme improves management of Its web content to help make degrees more accessible.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-28 June 2005-PERCUSSION SOFTWARE: University of London chooses Percussion Software's Rhythmyx ECM solution to manage content for distance learning programme; Britain's oldest distance learning programme improves management of Its web content to help make degrees more accessibleC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:28062005 ...
- Research articles 2005-06-28
- China: new distance learning center launched in Shanghai.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-27 July 2004-WORLD BANK: China: new distance learning center launched in ShanghaiC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07272004 Shanghai, China -- China and the World Bank today launched a new distance learning center in Shanghai hosted and managed in partnership with the...
- Research articles 2004-07-27
- Internet-based distance-learning course for Latin America telecom regulators surpasses all expectations.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 May 2000-ITU: Internet-based distance-learning course for Latin America telecom regulators surpasses all expectations C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30052000 Geneva -- The distance-learning course on Telecommunication Regulation for Latin America of the International Telecommunication Union ITU ...
- Research articles 2000-05-30
- Input/Output: Distance learning on the fly
- For most engineering students, distance learning entails working on class assignments when they get home from the office. For Marshall Groves, learning covered the distance between Iraq and Atlanta, Ga. By day, Capt. Groves pilots a Sikorsky MH-53M Pave Low helicopter for the U.S. Air Force. By night-and between missions-he's...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Customers Add Over 750 New ONE TOUCH Sites To Their Video Distance Learning Networks; ONE TOUCH Interactive Distance Learning Response System Becomes The Interactive Training Solution Standard for Major Corporations and Institutions
- SAN JOSE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 5, 1996--ONE TOUCH Systems, Inc., a privately held Silicon Valley company and the leading provider of interactive distance learning response systems, today announced the following new customers have incorporated the ONE TOUCH system into their video distance learning networks: American Red Cross, Ford Motor Company of...
- Research articles 1996-02-05
- How do learners utilize the course package and learning support services in distance learning: a survey on the learning processes.
- Distance Learning DL is more than 150 years old and has been a practical option for many students and institutions, but the advances in Information and Communication Technology ICT has accelerated the interest in DL to an unprecedented degree. A growing use of DL methods is...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- You Don't Have To Go the Whole Distance.(Distance Learning Center at Troy State University)(Technology Information)
- Troy State University, the third largest university system in Alabama, adopted distance education as a way of serving the needs of its students, many of whom are teachers in largely rural areas of the state. Troy's Distance Learning Center reacted to the particular needs of this group of students, and...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- Interactive distance--learning animation
- The shortest distance between two interactive distance-learning points is seldom a straight line. Technological problems as well as the vagaries of human participation ensure that the anticipated straight line is unattainable. Now entering into the third year of a fully interactive distance-learning animation project, my colleague, Professor Alice Carter, and...
- Research articles 1998-10-01
- China, World Bank launch new distance learning center in Shanghai
- China and the World Bank Tuesday launched a new distance learning center in Shanghai hosted and managed in partnership with the Shanghai National Accounting Institute SNAI. This brings the number of distance learning centers in China to a total of seven -- and there are 7 more underway. ...
- Research articles 2004-07-28
- Rhythmyx ECM solution selected to manage distance learning for the University of London
- TELECOMWORLDWIRE-28 June 2005-Rhythmyx ECM solution selected to manage distance learning for the University of LondonC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Rhythmyx Enterprise Content Management ECM solution has been selected by the University of London for its distance learning 'External Programme'. Percussion Software, a provider of software solutions and...
- Research articles 2005-06-28
- PBS Adult Learning Courses Go the Distance.(Mott Community College awards first distance-learning degree in general business)(Technology Information)
- On May 2, 1998, Gail Spears became the first Going the Distance GTD graduate in the country. Gail earned an associate degree in general business by completing 79 credit hours of instruction, all delivered by distance learning from Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan. Gail lives...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- Expanding Sri Lanka's postsecondary education with distance learning.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-13 June 2003-ADB: Expanding Sri Lanka's postsecondary education with distance learningC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13062003 MANILA, PHILIPPINES -- The Asian Development Bank ADB is helping to modernize Sri Lanka's postsecondary education system through a US$45 million equivalent loan approved...
- Research articles 2003-06-13
