Seminar On Distance Education

SEMINAR ON DISTANCE EDUCATION
NAME OF STUDENT : MSRANI TARANNUM KHAN

NAME OF GUIDE : MRS. ALINE NITIN (Lecturer)
SUBJECT : NURSING EDUCATION
TOPIC : DISTANCE EDUCATION
UNIT : IX
AUDIO VISUAL AIDS: TRANSPARENCY, CHARTS, FLIPCHARTS,
FLASH CARDS
DATE : 19/09/2013
TIME : 10:00AM TO 11:00 N
VENUE : M.SC. (N) I LECTURER HALL
GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the seminar student will able to gain in depth knowledge about “DISTANCE
EDUCATION”.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE:
At the end of the seminar student will able to:
Define the term distance education.
Enlist the aims & objectives of Distance education.
Enlist the elements of nursing education.
Describe the function of Distance education.
Enlist the Advantages & disadvantages of Distance education.
Differentiated between Distance education & Correspondence education.
Explain significance of Distance education in nursing.
INTRODUCTION
Distance Learning has been around for ages. Form the moment you decide you would
like to continue your education, the internet can provide access to detailed information about the
many institution and distance learning courses currently available to you world wide –
information about the teacher, deadlines, grants & fees. A courses website might include a
syllabus, a summary of lesson, notes, and links to helpful sites related research, project done by
students, model assignments and a long list of etceteras considered im-practical under the more
traditional system.
Distance education is a form of education in which the students of universities and
institutes of higher learning do not attend regular classes or lectures. But instead of that they will
receive the teaching material that was prepared by the professors & experts by means of letter,
printed material, Telephone calls, Video-Audio.
DEFINITION:
Distance education is a system of rational action for the imparting of knowledge skills &
attitudes were by the direct social relationship between teacher & students are substituted to a
great extent by indirect relations.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:
1. It aims at not only providing certificates & degrees but also helps in personal growth and
training for better job prospectus, job enhancement and in-service education.
2. Bring changes in attitude in addition to knowledge.
3. Makes education socially more relevant.
4. Provides flexibility of time to enable students to pace their studies.
5. Caters to educationally disadvantaged group likes unemployed people livening in remote
and rural areas, working people who cannot attend regular institution, House wives etc.
6. Provides opportunities for self-enrichment and professional upgrading.
ELEMENTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:
1. The separation of teaching behaviors & learning behaviors.

2. The use of technical media.
3. The possibility of two way communication.
4. The possibility of occasional seminar or meetings between students & teachers.
5. It is a form of indirect instruction; it is imparted by technical media e.g. correspondence
code of printed material, teaching& learning aids, A.V. aids and computers.
6. A comprehensive elements include a distance education is:-
a. A fringe form of ordinary teaching.
b. An institutionalizing form of individual study.
c. Education through teaching aids.
d. Expended form of teaching by correspondence with feedback.
e. Special type of mass education.
FUNCTION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:
1. In the form of correspondence course and on the other it gets autonomous treatment in
frame work of open universities.
2. It is a table components of higher education, where the deprive section of society have
made use of opportunity offered by the distance education system.
3. It accommodates the learner from upper age group, employed. Specially women, who
would not have had opportunity to continue their studies,
4. Educational activities: includes technologist e.g. Radio, T.V., video, news paper or postal
correspondence etc. Distance education has been successfully used to meet the learning
needs of individuals who are difficult to reach to formal schooling & non-formal group
program, which is continues through material and A.V. aids.
5. Distance education program are generally develop outside of the main stream educational
management network.
6. Learning opportunities to the peoples,
7. Non-formal education for youth and adults provides opportunities to learn various life
skills and job skills as well as basic literacy, numeracy.
8. To improve the primary school instruction, using interactive radio broad cast together
with the corresponding print material can enhance pupil’s learning achievements.
9. It requires careful planning to attained realistic goals.
ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:
ADVANTAGES:-
1. Requires no or little commuting, which saves, time and money. And we can put the time
you use commuting for work to use the reading the class materials.
2. Allows you to complete course work when it’s convenient for us.
3. Classes are student centered. We receive direction from an instructor and need to meet
project deadlines but for the most part we set the pace.
4. Offers easy access to resources. The instructor, other students and on-line tools are only a
click away.
5. Can lead to an advanced degree that may result in increased career salaries.
6. Avoid physical accessibility issues such as access to buildings and sitting in
uncomfortable chairs.
7. It a grater equalizer. We work with fellow classmates without regards for appearance,
age, sex, ethnicity of other differences that can result in prejudice.
8. Fosters a broader perspective through interaction with people from other parts of the
world.
9. Will teach we project and management, along with distance collaboration skills, which
will prepare us to work on virtual teams in our jobs.
DISADVANTAGES:-
1. We must be discipline enough to our work independently.
2. Require substantial self motivation. We set the pace and are in control of our chances for
success.
3. Requires strong reading, writing, and communication skill. Interaction with our instructor
and classmate will be via E-mail or massaging system where clarity & conciseness count.
4. We need basic computer skill and comfort with the internet.
5. Joins students and instructor who often have dissimilar background and experience.
While this can result in a grater understanding of other, it also can take longer to establish
a rapport.
6. Doesn’t offer motivation factor arising from.
SIGNIFICANCE ASPECTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

1. The learner is quasi-permanently separated from the teacher throughout the length of the
learning process.
2. The learner is quasi-permanently separated from the learning room throughout length of the
learning process.
3. A technological medium replaces the interpersonal communication of conventional oral
group-based education.
4. The teaching learning process is institutionalizing.
5. Two way communications is possible between both the student and the teacher.
6. In essence, it represents individualization of the educational process.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
1. BASWANTHAPPA B.T., NURSING EDUCATION, 2ND EDITION 2004, NEW DELHI,
JAYPEE BROTHERS, Pp 593-927.
2. KELLY LUCIE YOUNG, DIMENSION OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING, 8TH EDITION,
1999, NEW DELHI. MCGRAW HILL, Pp. 186-188.
3. NIRJA KP, TEXT BOOK OF NURSING EDUCATION, 5TH EDITION 2007, NEW
DELHI, JAYPEE BROTHERS, Pp 447-493.
4. ANNJ.ZWEMER, PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT & ETHICS, 6TH EDITION 1995, KV
METHEW, Pp 248-255.
5. http://google.co.in/images?hl=en&q=professionalagencies&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
6. http://google.co.in/images?gbv=2&ndsp=20&hl=en&q=council&start=60&sa=N

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SEMINAR ON DISTANCE EDUCATION

NAME OF STUDENT : MSRANI TARANNUM KHAN

AIMS & OBJECTIVES OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

ELEMENTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

1. The separation of teaching behaviors & learning behaviors.

FUNCTION OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

SIGNIFICANCE ASPECTS OF DISTANCE EDUCATION:

1. BASWANTHAPPA B.T., NURSING EDUCATION, 2ND EDITION 2004, NEW DELHI,

JAYPEE BROTHERS, Pp 593-927.

2. KELLY LUCIE YOUNG, DIMENSION OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING, 8TH EDITION,

1999, NEW DELHI. MCGRAW HILL, Pp. 186-188.

DELHI, JAYPEE BROTHERS, Pp 447-493.

4. ANNJ.ZWEMER, PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT & ETHICS, 6TH EDITION 1995, KV

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