What is Distance Education?

Distance Education is a teaching method in which communication and interaction between those who plan and implement educational studies and the learners are provided from a certain center through specially prepared teaching units and various environments, in cases where it is not possible to carry out in-class activities in traditional learning-teaching methods. Again, we can define distance education as follows; It is an institutional education activity where students, teachers and teaching materials from different locations are brought together through communication technologies.

Why Distance Education?

• Lifelong learning is necessary.
• It is an education system that can serve a wide range of students.
• It is indispensable for people who do not benefit from traditional education.
• It can provide educational services with different applications to a target audience consisting of individuals with different qualifications.
• Increase, change and diversification of knowledge and skills.
• It is economical (unit costs are cheap)
• It is a system that can offer a wide range of communication technologies to educational services.
• It is student-centered.