Distance Learning
Today, the modern era where day to day life has become fast and people have less free time distance education has emerged as a blessing for them. The main characteristic of distance education that makes it so popular is to provide education to anyone at his own place and time. People engaged in job can boost their career further by specializing advance courses related to their field within their free time without the hassles of going to attend regular classes, females who use to take care of families and have no time to attend regular classes or in many countries where they are not allowed to move alone to a long distance are the major beneficiary of distance education.
Distance education is provided through synchronous and asynchronous ways of technology. Synchronous technology is the way where all students of a particular course are required to present at the time of delivery of classes. The main examples of synchronous technology are web conferencing, videoconferencing, and live telecast. Asynchronous technology is the way of delivering contents to the students in a way that they can access contents at their own time. For example contents delivered through CD/DVD, email, print material etc.
Distance learning program offers a numerous advantages such as overcoming of physical distance between learners and institutions providing such programs, solves problem for time scheduling as anyone can access the program at his own schedule, enhances the limit of number of registrations which are limited in a campus based training, makes full use of limited resources of trained trainers as they are not required to give lectures regularly and even low registrations in a particular course can be carried for over a long duration as much cost is not involved and finally the reduced fee of certification as compared to regular courses fee.
So, there are lots of advantages for distance education learning but before enrollment one should take care of accreditation or recognition of such program, should look for resources and technology that is required by you to access the program and check the quality of contents that is provided by the program.