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Saturday, August 10, 2002
http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde7/articles/selcukuniversity.htm Distance Education Within A Campus: Case Of Selcuk University Abdullah KOCAK, Ahmet KALENDER; Selcuk University School of Communication INTRODUCTION: Distance education phenomenon has risen in recent years especially with the adaptation of new telecomunication technologies. The term 'distance education' refers to many teaching and learning activities in which the learner is separated from the educational institutions or from the instructors (Miller & Smith, 1998). Distance education is basicly defined as taking a course where students and instructor are separated from each other by distance (Fender, 1999). Many definitions stress on separation by both space and time as a main sign of distance learning. Perraton (1988) defines distance education as "an educational process in which a significant proportion of the teaching is conducted by someone removed in space and/or time from the learner" (p.34). In this context, many forms of media play important roles in distance education. Media have become a bridge between students and lecturers. In addition to traditional materials, written to be printed or recorded, internet and video-conferencing systems have begun to be used in distance education (Miller & Smith, 1998; Schneider & German, 1999; Jung, 2000; Motamedi, 2001)....
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