Distance Education Models and New Communication Trends in Education

Abstract

Last decade’s technological developments in the field of information technology have boosted its range of uses in distance education and given new dimensions to this type of education. Distance learning nowadays is practised in several theories, each differing from the other in its formal access, in the analysis of its teaching and learning materials, in its methods and range of counselling and the range of its communication with participants, as well as in its didactic concept of preparing and forming learning materials, etc. Distance education is an important criterion for new communication trends in education. Therefore, it shall be covered more thoroughly in this work.