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Institute for Adult Learning Singapore (IAL) is the Training and Adult Education autonomous institute within the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). [1] It was established in 2008. IAL offers a range of education programmes such as Master's degree , WSQ Diploma, WSQ Advanced Certificate, and short courses in the field of training ...
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, [1] [2] or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. [3]
A virtual university (or online university) provides higher education programs through electronic media, typically the Internet. Some are bricks-and-mortar institutions that provide online learning as part of their extended university courses while others solely offer online courses. They are regarded as a form of distance education. The goal ...
In 2000 only 8% of students were enrolled in an online course, but by 2008 enrollment had increased to 20%. [11] The expansion of online education has not slowed either; by the fall of 2013 nearly 30% of all postsecondary students were enrolled in some kind of distance education course. [12]
Digital pedagogy has its origins in distance learning, which took the form of correspondence courses delivered by mail during the early twentieth century. [2] In 1858 the University of London offered the first distance learning degree, known as the External Programme. [3]
Learning centers at post-secondary school campuses may incorporate either e-moderating or one-to-one online tutoring, or both, creating a distance learning program, whether or not the campus or student courses are conducted online. In distance learning, tutors may be recruited specifically for the role of teaching and supporting students ...
The distributed learning model can be used in combination with traditional classroom-based courses and traditional distance education courses (in which it is also deferred to as blended learning, or it can be used to create entirely virtual classrooms. [1] [2])
Jerrold Maddox, at Penn State University, taught a course, Commentary on Art, on the web starting in January 1995. It was the first course taught at a distance using the web. The first fully online, for-credit university course was developed in 1994–95, and taught in the Fall 1995 at the University of Waterloo by Professor Paul Beam.